Solidworks Sheet Metal Forming Tool

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Solidworks sheet metal forming tool.

When you place the forming tool on the sheet metal part the faces that you selected for faces to remove are deleted from the. In the propertymanager on the type tab. Select a face as the stopping face. Before you apply forming tools to sheet metal parts in the design library you must right click the folder that contains the forming tools and select forming tools folder to designate its contents as forming tools.

This applies to forming tools that are part files sldprt not form tool sldftp files. Click forming tool sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal forming tool. There are a number of useful tools here. You can find these items in the forming tools folder.

In the following image you can see how a forming tool is dragged from the design library onto the sheet metal model to form the part. When asked if you want all subfolders to be marked as forming tools folders click yes. Search using sheet metal tools in the solidworks knowledge base. Using sheet metal bend parameters.

Solidworks forming tools are found in the design library and are used to form sheet metal parts. Multibody sheet metal parts. The jog tool adds material to a sheet metal part by creating two bends from a sketched line. There are a set of forming tools for punching sheet metal models inside the design library in solidworks.

Select one or more faces as the faces to remove. Using forming tools with sheet metal. Before you apply forming tools to sheet metal parts in the design library you must right click the folder that contains the forming tools and select forming tools folder to designate its contents as forming tools. Open a sheet metal part and browse to the forming tools folder in the design library.

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