Sketch Driven Sheet Metal Part

The course will cover the creation of a portion of an electrical enclosure to house equipment for assembly line processing machines.

Sketch driven sheet metal part.

Sketch driven sheet metal assembly design is the perfect course for you. However you must first override the default parameters of the sheet metal feature. It does not matter if the part is actually sheet metal or not. Make a sketch with all the point locations then create your hardware pattern using that sketch then jus suppress the original piece of hardware and in your drawing subtract 1 from the count.

Under selections do the following. This example show how to build a solid from a 3d sketch and then convert that to a sheet metal component that can be flattened. The key to creating a punch tool is that 1 it must be intially created on a part face rather than a workplane and 2 it must have a sketch point in the first sketch to indicate where to place on subsiquent sketches. Sheet metal thickness is an important aspect of deep drawing process design.

Rectangles circles polygons and ellipses are automatically extruded to the thickness of a sheet metal wall as you sketch. If necessary use the flyout featuremanager design tree to select a reference sketch to use as the pattern. Geomagic design added a global parameter function in the latest release. In it you will design and manipulate the enclosure to fit your original part.

17 from main window file new global parameters to create a new file capture 1 and create a new parameter rotor dia with a value of 400mm capture 2. It is unnecessary step to add the extra part and then suppress it. For noncircular sheet metal parts the maximum diameter is sometimes used. Example of a fan scroll sheet metal part that uses a layout sketch parameter file and design function equation table.

Once this is done it is possible to link the override thickness value to a global variable. Just mate the part correctly to one hole and use one of the pattern point as reference. Thickness is represented by t and d b is the diameter of the blank. It looks like the punch solution will work for you.

Click sketch driven pattern features toolbar or insert pattern mirror sketch driven pattern. See sheet metal options to change the default wall thickness. Sketching sheet metal parts the tools in the sketch group on the sheet metal tab are a little different from normal sketch tools. Lines splines and arcs are.