Rolling Sheet Metal Solidworks

How to create rolled cylinders that appears in industries using solidworks sheet metal.

Rolling sheet metal solidworks.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Custom rolling bending forming steel and waterjet cutting services call 877 754 0900. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Exercise 23 cylindrical sheet metal parts linear sketch patterns.

In your case it would be a 359 9 degree bend. This will create a lofted section from your two projected sketches. Since 1984 jorgenson metal rolling and forming has been serving the metals industry in southern california we specialize in rolling of all structural shapes including angle rolling square and rectangular tube rolling pipe rolling channel rolling spiral rolling and beam rolling as well as heavy. Sheet metal design is based on a press brake operation not a rolling operation.

Starting with the flat and then forming with the rolled and flat associative is hard to do. Second phase in creating a rolled sheet metal component within solidworks. First phase in creating a rolled sheet metal component within solidworks once the sketches are complete it is time to use the sheet metal lofted bend tool. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Under sheet metal parameters. You might also like.

However in some circumstances when the design requires certain types of geometry you can use non sheet metal feature tools then insert bends or convert the part to sheet metal.