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SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Course Overview

The “SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal” course offered by designandprocess.com is a comprehensive training program designed to immerse participants in the specialized field of sheet metal design. This course aims to equip learners with the essential techniques and industry-standard practices necessary for sheet metal fabrication, enabling them to create 3D models tailored for manufacturing.

You’ll learn techniques for flange features, flat patterns, bend tables, application of forming tools, converting solid bodies into sheet metal parts, and how to apply various corner treatments to aid manufacturing.

This course is ideal for both beginners and experienced professionals looking to enhance their expertise in sheet metal design. It provides valuable insights into creating manufacturable designs that meet industry standards.

Skills Learned:

  • Create manufacturing drawings of formed parts and flat patterns & automate drawings with bend tables
  • Apply various corner treatments and reliefs to aid manufacturing
  • Work with imported geometry and convert to parametric sheet metal parts
  • Create form tools for press features
  • Design complex swept and lofted sheet metal parts
SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Training

Course Duration

2 Days  (7 hours/day)

Prerequisites

SOLIDWORKS Essentials Course

Onsite Training

Course Examples

Flat Pattern
Create flat patterns for drawings, add bend lines & angles
Lofted Bends
Blend different profiles with lofted bends
Automate Fabrication Drawings
Add numerous bend callouts at once and leverage bend tables to organize drawings
Indent & Form Features
Create stiffening features and complex form tools for press features
Corner Treatments
Create various corner treatments & reliefs to aid manufacturing
Louvers & Obround Corners
Create complex corner reliefs and louver features

SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: Basic Flange Features

  • Sheet Metal Methods
  • Unique Sheet Metal Items
  • Flange Method
  • Base Flange/Tab
  • Sheet Metal Parameters
  • Sheet Metal Thickness and Bend Radius
  • Bend Allowance
    • K-Factor
    • Bend Allowance
    • Bend Deduction
    • Specifying the Bend Allowance
  • Auto Relief
  • Editing Sheet Metal Parameters
  • Sheet Metal Bend Features
  • Flat-Pattern Feature
    • Flatten and Exit Flatten
    • Toggle Flat Display
  • Additional Flange Features
  • Edge Flanges
    • Edge Flange Settings
  • Editing the Flange Profile
    • Flange Profile Relations
  • Edge Flanges on Curved Edges
  • Miter Flanges
    • Miter Flange Settings
  • Hem Feature
    • Hem Settings
  • Tab Features
  • Cuts in Sheet Metal
  • Sharing a Model
  • Summary of Flange Features
  • Exercise 1: Sheet Metal Bracke
  • Exercise 2: Flange Features
  • Exercise 3: Edit Flange Profile
  • Exercise 4: Sheet Metal Box
  • Exercise 5: Assorted Framing Hangers

Lesson 2: Working with the Flat Pattern

  • Working with the Flat Pattern
  • Flat Pattern Settings
  • Features for Manufacture
  • Corner-Trim Feature
    • Corner-Trim Settings
  • Corners in the Formed State
  • Closed Corner
    • Closed Corner Settings
  • Corner Relief
  • Break Corner/Corner Trim
  • Producing the Flat Pattern
  • Sheet Metal Cut List Properties
    • Accessing Cut List Properties
  • Sheet Metal Drawings
  • Flat Pattern Drawing Views
  • Flat Pattern View Properties
  • Cut List Properties as a Note
  • Exporting the Flat Pattern
  • Exercise 6: Flat Pattern Settings
  • Exercise 7: Working with Corners

Lesson 3: Standardizing Sheet Metal Designs

  • Standardizing Gauge Numbers and Bend Radii
  • Standardizing Bend Allowance
  • Topics for Standardizing Parameters
  • Using Tables
    • Gauge Tables
    • Bend Tables
    • Bend Allowance
    • Editing the Gauge Table Selection
    • Gauge Table Training Files
    • Defining Table File Locations
  • Custom Sheet Metal Materials
  • Sheet Metal Templates
    • Sheet Metal Part Document Properties
    • Other Part Template Settings
    • Sensors for Sheet Metal
    • Sheet Metal Drawing Document Properties
  • Sheet Metal Tables in Drawings
    • Adding a Cut List Table
    • Adding a Bend Table
  • Mapping DXF Output
    • Options for Map File
  • Exercise 8: Standardizing Sheet Metal Designs

Lesson 4: Additional Sheet Metal Techniques

  • Additional Sheet Metal Methods
  • Designing from the Flat
  • Sketched Bend Feature
  • Jog Feature
  • Adding Features in an Unfolded State
  • Unfold and Fold
    • Creating Cuts in the Flat Pattern
  • Swept Flange
  • Swept Flange Flat Pattern Options
  • Lofted Bends
    • Bent Lofted Bends
    • Bent Bend Region Options
    • Formed Lofted Bends
    • Formed Bend Region Options
  • Lofted Bends in the Design Library
  • Exercise 9: Sheet Metal from Flat
  • Exercise 10: Jogs and Hems
  • Exercise 11: Fold & Unfold
  • Exercise 12: Conical Swept Flange
  • Exercise 13: Lofted Bends
  • Exercise 14: Using Symmetry
    • Manual Relief Cut
    • Sheet Metal Library Features

Lesson 5: Converting to Sheet Metal

  • Sheet Metal Conversion
  • Insert Bends Method
  • Adding Rips
  • Insert Bends
    • Associated Features
    • Switching Between States
  • Making Changes
  • Welded Corner
  • Converting Cones and Cylinders
  • Convert to Sheet Metal
    • Convert to Sheet Metal Settings
    • Using Rip Sketches
  • Exercise 15: Working with Imported Geometry
  • Exercise 16: Unrolling a Cylinder
  • Exercise 17: Convert to Sheet Metal Practice
  • Exercise 18: Convert with Rips
  • Exercise 19: Sheet Metal Hopper

Lesson 6: Multibody Sheet Metal Parts

  • Multibody Sheet Metal Parts
    • Tools to Create Multibody Sheet Metal Parts
  • Multibodies with Base Flange
  • Sheet Metal Parameters for Multibodies
    • Solid Body Feature History
  • Cut List Item Properties for Multibodies
  • Flat Pattern Drawing Views for Multibodies
  • Cut List Balloon Annotations
  • Exporting to DXF/DWGs with Multibodies
  • Convert with Multibodies
  • Hiding and Showing Bodies
    • Hide and Show
    • Hide/Show Bodies Command
    • Isolate
    • The Display Pane
    • Sensors for Multibody Parts
  • Using Split with Sheet Metal Parts
  • Patterning for Multibodies
  • Using Edge Flanges to Merge Bodies
  • Interfering Bodies
  • Combining Sheet Metal with Other Bodies
    • Assigning Materials to Bodies
  • Exercise 20: Toolbox
  • Exercise 21: Mirroring and Merging Bodies
  • Exercise 22: Sheet Metal Trailer

Lesson 7: Forming Tools and Gussets

  • Sheet Metal Forming Tools
    • How They Work
  • Forming Tools in the Design Library
    • The Forming Tools Folder
    • Using an Existing Forming Tool
    • Form Tool Feature Settings
  • Form Tool Features in the Flat
  • Part Document Properties
  • Custom Forming Tools
  • Split Line
  • Forming Tool Feature
  • Legacy Behavior for Forming Tools
  • Form Tools in Drawings
    • Punch Tables and Punch ID
  • Sheet Metal Gusset
  • Exercise 23: Customizing a Forming Tool
  • Exercise 24: Sheet Metal Gusset

Lesson 8: Additional Sheet Metal Functions

  • Additional Sheet Metal Functions
  • Cross-Breaks
    • Cross Break Settings
    • Cross Breaks in Drawings
  • Vent Features
  • Fill Pattern
  • Mirror Part
  • Tab and Slot
  • Process Plans
  • Exercise 25: Vent Cover

SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Course Schedule

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