Course Name: Sheet Metal

Description: Establish new skills, tips, and tricks specific to modeling sheet metal components and assemblies using SolidWorks to automate design parameters, including bend allowance, relief, jogs, miter flanges, closed corners, hems, forming tools, and many other common features. Creating external references with sheet metal parts, and converting dumb solids to sheet metal features is also discussed.

PreRequisite: Essentials

Agenda:

- Sheet Metal Techniques
- Base Flanges
- Miter Flanges
- Edge Flanges
- Tab
- Flat patterns
- Forming Tools
- Legacy SolidWorks Sheet Metal Manipulation
- Imported data (IGS, etc.) File Handling and Sheet Metal Conversion
- Unrolling Cones
- Top-down Sheet Metal Assembly Modeling