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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 Cassick (Home)
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Ray,

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

Ray Cassick (Home) wrote:

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brewertr

Hi Ray

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

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

John Layne

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John Layne

John,

Thanks for the links.

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

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Tom

John Layne wrote:

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brewertr

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

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Ray Cassick (Home)

Great, thanks!

"John Layne" built into SolidWorks.

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Ray Cassick (Home)

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