Solidworks Sheet Metal Design Library

In this tutorial video i will design electrical enclosure in solidworks with the help of sketch and sheet metal tools i hope you like it.

Solidworks sheet metal design library.

The part on which you insert the forming tool is called the target part. Weldments and structure system. Solidworks forming tools are found in the design library and are used to form sheet metal parts. 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.

The design library includes folders populated with reusable entities such as annotations assemblies and. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. You can add this folder to the design library by setting it up in file locations. This applies to forming tools that are part files sldprt not form tool sldftp files.

Find free downloads for supplier parts models component models 3d parametric models and supplier component downloads including free cad drawings assembly models and full 3d cad models. Use these free part models by dropping them directly into your 3d design or as part downloads for your solidworks parts library inventor parts library or autocad parts library. Solidworks sheet metal design create complex sheet metal enclosures with ease solidworks provides easy to use and powerful tools for creating enclosures guarding and sheet metal designs. 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.

The two most common being my design library is missing or solidworks is asking are you trying to make a derived part when trying to use forming tools. 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. You can insert forming tools only from the design library and you can apply them only to sheet metal parts.