Solidworks Sheet Metal Configurations

Solidworks configurations part 1.

Solidworks sheet metal configurations.

Automation of solidworks cut lists in sheet metal and weldment parts and drawings. As shown in the figure below the flat pattern view is the same as the front view and shows the part in a bent state. Switch to the configurations tab atop the feature manager fm right click the top line and select add configuration give it a name then switch back to the main fm. In the last few years he moved to ts working closely with vars mario wrote the sheet metal functionality best practice manual as well as creating hundreds of sheet metal knowledge base articles.

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. Vba macro which iterates all sheets and configurations of solidworks file and activates each one by one. When the flat pattern drawing view of a solidworks sheet metal part displays the part in the bent condition this can indicate an issue with the suppression state of the flat pattern feature. Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the folded and the flat pattern states fig.

The differences between configurations are established by changing dimension values suppressing features and changing other parameters. Sheet metal gauge tables store properties for a designated material. Design studies in solidworks. In this configuration the sheet.

1 sketches created in the folded state can have an equivalent transformed sketch in the flat pattern state. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Sheet metal configs are just like any other type of configs. Basics and creating configurations solidworks configurations allow users to maintain multiple versions of a part or an assembly in a single file.

Double click the feature sketch to expose the dimensions in the graphics area then double click the dimension to expose an editing box. Macro removes all of the equations or optionally only broken equations in the active model part or assembly. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. You can access the sheet metal gauge table from the propertymanager while creating the base flange.

Select process bends and all of the features after it. Search sheet metal gauge tables in the solidworks knowledge base.