Expanded Sheet Metal Solidworks

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

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. We use expanded metal on several components on our machines and rebuilding the model takes forever if the expanded metal detail is active. If you re using it for engineering purposes don t forget to create an expanded metal material to get the correct density. The computer aided design cad files and all associated content posted to this website are created uploaded managed and owned by third party users.

In years past there was no connection between defining a material for a part and its sheet metal manufacturing characteristics ie. Under sheet metal parameters. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. 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.

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. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. 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.

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. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Looking for downloadable 3d printing models designs and cad files.