Solidworks Sheet Metal Flange Width

Edge flange see figure 3 can be used to add an attached wall to any sheet metal body.

Solidworks sheet metal flange width.

Click base flange tab on the sheet metal toolbar or click insert sheet metal base flange. Sketch line of the profile must lie on the selected edge. For example the direction 1 and direction 2 boxes do not appear for a sketch with a single closed profile. This same tool can be used to make a flat piece of sheet metal that one would use to add edge flanges and other useful sheet metal features.

Are commonly used to create sheetmetals. This flange will inherit the radius and thickness parameters of the base flange. Thickness is linked to the thickness of the sheet metal part. That means higher the gauge thinner is the sheetmetal.

For legacy parts opened with the solidworks 2007 application edge flange dimensions appear only after editing existing edge flanges or rebuilding the part. The controls on the base flange propertymanager update according to your sketch. Normally a sheet metal thickness mentioned as gauge of metal and it ranges from 30 to 8 gauge. Aluminum brass copper mild steel tin nickel etc.

Sketch line of the profile must lie on the selected edge.