Drawing Sheet Metal Parts In Solidworks

This time around i created a master sketch and referenced everything off of it so i can simply update the master sketch to change any overall dimensions.

Drawing sheet metal parts in solidworks. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet. One of the best things about solidworks is that core modeling functionality is included with solidworks standard. You can create dxf files of sheet metal flat patterns without creating a drawing.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Solidworks has supported sheet metal multi body parts for the last two releases but that still came as a pleasant surprise for me. You can adjust the size of the drawing view under scale by selecting use custom scale and typing a value. A very diverse and powerful toolset capable of modeling most anythin is found in the standard package.

How to model complex sheet metal parts in solidworks. The use of a single drawing to contain all the drawings for all the bodies creates the same issue of burying drawing for p n 456 inside drawing for p n 123. I would then also have to send the entire drawing to the sheet metal vendor with an explanation to ignore this and that. Normally i make all my sheet metal parts as individual parts and combine them in an assembly and create my drawing from there on.

Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. It s a complete set of parts assemblies drawings weldments sheet metal surfacing and more. Russell everard 1 aug. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.