How To Use Sheet Metal Forming Tool Solidworks

You can add punch ids to forming tools for easier identification in punch tables.

How to use sheet metal forming tool solidworks.

Now let s use the forming tool command to identify the stopping face for the tool faces that need to be removed and the insertion point when the tool is applied. The jog tool adds material to a sheet metal part by creating two bends from a sketched line. Click forming tool sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal forming tool. The file is now complete when saving the file there are two options.

After you insert a forming tool in a model you can replace the forming tool with another one. Click under sheet metal tab. Select the top face for the stopping face and the separated face as the face to remove. Select a face as the stopping face.

Let s establish the insertion point. If forming tools folder is already selected omit this step. Applying forming tools to sheet metal parts. When you place the forming tool on the sheet metal part the faces that you selected for faces to remove are deleted from the.

Sheet metal parts display the sheet metal feature in the featuremanager design tree. When asked if you want all subfolders to be marked as forming tools folders click yes. Right click the folder and click forming tools folder. This can be launched from the sheet metal toolbar.

Select one or more faces as the faces to remove. The break corner corner trim tool cuts or adds material to a folded sheet metal part on an edge or a face. In the propertymanager on the type tab. Saving the files in the design library forming tools as any soldiworks part sldprt sldlfp sldftp saving the files in any folder on your machine but saving it as a solidworks.

Two property boxes are contained within this command one for a stopping face in green and one for faces to be removed in red pink. Corner reliefs and bend transitions. This is available only in sheet metal parts with flatten bends1 and process bends1 features.