Convert Boss Extrude To Sheet Metal

It may have been difficult to see in the video but if you are dead set on using the convert to sheet metal command you need to have a planar flat face.

Convert boss extrude to sheet metal.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. 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. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Every few releases this feature gets some terrific functionality added to it. Make it normal and choose the convert entities. In today s blog we will review and break down some of the great tools available in each section of the extrude command.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. No the edge of your sheet metal part doesn t count. Exit the sketch and see the diagram in 3d we now have circles on the reference plane. Extrude boss base feature is mainly located in features command manager or insert menu.

That means if you have closed contour sketch drawing then you can add materials to that contour and convert it into 3d model. Create a block with the extruded boss base tool. Select both these circles. Using the extrude boss feature you create 3d models like block cube cylinder 3d polygon 3d elliptical shapes etc.

Under sheet metal parameters. Shell the block to 1mm so the part is of uniform thickness. You can also go to the toolbar and click insert boss base extrude to pull up the boss extrude feature menu as well. Extrude these circles by selecting extrude boss tool.

Showing the final results. This is why you will often find that people will create a very small flat section using a boss extrude to create a flat section at the end. In faces to remove select the faces as shown. Showing the results of convert entities tool and extrude boss command.

To create a part of uniform thickness and convert it to sheet metal. The extruded boss base feature can be found on the features tab in the command manager interface as shown in figure 1. For more information about solid.