Solidworks Multi Body Sheet Metal Separate Parts

Each new part contains a single feature named stock parent part name n.

Solidworks multi body sheet metal separate parts.

The part will be placed with an in context mate that you can use or delete depending on your desire. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs. The part now contains multiple sheet metal bodies. Solidworks has supported sheet metal multi body parts for the last two releases but that still came as a pleasant surprise for me.

Each body has its own sheet metal and material definition flat pattern and. They contain a reference to the parent part. What are the advantages of multi body parts. The difference between a multi body part and an assembly.

Multibody sheet metal parts can consist of multiple sheet metal bodies or a combination of sheet metal and other bodies such as weldment bodies. The new parts are derived. When you add a feature to a body the cut list name changes to the last feature added. In the featuremanager design tree the bodies in the cut list are named for the split feature.

You can reattach a derived part to a specified stock part split feature or body. If you change the geometry of the original part the new parts also change. In addition a cut list contains a separate representation for each body with a flat pattern specific to the body. When you create a multibody sheet metal part in the featuremanager design tree the main tree lists each body and its features in the order in which you add them.