Bending sheetmetal

Help...

I have a decent background from way back when all mechanical drawing was
done with a pencil and vellum.

I am trying to do some work for a sheet metal prototype in Solidworks 2006
and am having a problem that I can't seem to find any help for. I figured I
would ask here.

All I need to do is draw a piece of sheet metal that will have the sides
bent downwards at 90 degree angles along the left and right edges. I KNOW
that there is a way to have Solidworks model this out of a single sheet of
metal but I cannot seem to figure it out. Each time I try to use the bend
feature it tells me that there are no bends found. How do I define a bend in
the first place?

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Ray,

order.

Try this,

Start up SolidWorks

1) Go to help
2) Online Tutorials
3) Go down to Sheet Metal and click on it
4) Follow instructions

I feel confident this will give you easy to follow and a quick step by
step procedure for what you are trying to do.

Tom

 

Hi Ray

I suggest you go through the SolidWorks Tutorial on SheetMetal, that's built
into SolidWorks.

www.sheetmetaldesign.com Is a VERY useful resource on the Sheetmetal
functionality in SolidWorks.

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

John,

Thanks for the links.

The tutorial on Sheet Metal Cross-Break is very helpful it gives me a
different method to try.

http://www.solidengineering.co.nz/solidworks_free_tutorials.htm

Tom

 

Thanks for filling me in on that! Great resource. I never new it was there.

 

Great, thanks!