Extruded Cut Solidworks Sheet Metal

Opens the sheet metal part.

Extruded cut solidworks sheet metal.

You can make cuts across bend lines. To cut across sheet metal bends. In the sheet metal shop the hole will be punched on the flat sheet before the bend which the sketched bend feature in sw sheet metal for so just create a flat sheet add extrude cut and let the sketched bend feature takes care the rest. If the depth of the original extrusion changes the new one changes to match it.

This is available only when sheet metal features are present in the featuremanager design tree. Open the immediate window. Adds draft to the extruded feature. As far as i can tell tho sw will only let me cut the sheet metal perpendicular to the face but i need to cut 5 deg from normal.

New in solidworks 2012 is the ability to have an extruded cut across a sheet metal bend that doesn t go through the entire thickness and is still able to be. Cutting at an angle just seems to make a larger normal cut. The link to thickness option is useful in sheet metal parts because the part must be of uniform thickness. Verify that the sheet metal part to open exists.

In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold. Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude.