Expanded Sheet Metal Solidworks

We use expanded metal on several components on our machines and rebuilding the model takes forever if the expanded metal detail is active.

Expanded sheet metal solidworks.

Join the grabcad community to get access to 2 5 million free cad files from the largest collection of professional designers engineers manufacturers and students on the planet. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Maybe you already know this once you ve modeled your root file in my case a 20 x 20 piece of expanded metal use the freeze bar after the patterns to tell sw to not rebuild the part features behind the freeze bar.

There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. In years past there was no connection between defining a material for a part and its sheet metal manufacturing characteristics ie. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. However in some circumstances when the design requires certain types of geometry you can use non sheet metal feature tools then insert bends or convert the part to sheet metal.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. The computer aided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created uploaded managed and owned by third party users. Under sheet metal parameters. You might also like.

I have taken to including a derived configuration of the expanded metal with the detail suppressed so i can use the less detailed configuration and only use the fully detailed configuration when i need it. There may be an expanded metal appearance option in solidworks i m not already aware of but you can always grab an image from the internet and apply it to a face. Now i was able to modify and save versions of my base sheet for use in an assembly.