Solidworks Sheet Metal Mirror Part

Click front plane and click on sketch.

Solidworks sheet metal mirror part.

Creating mirrored sheet metal parts. You can copy the features of the original part to the mirrored part by breaking the link to the original part. How to mirror a part in solidworks tutorial duration. In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten.

The only bends that are not mirrored are those that are normal to and coincident to the mirror plane. Those bends are extended. Mirroring sheet metal. Introduced in solidworks 2015 when creating mirrored versions of sheet metal parts it is now possible to transfer the sheet metal and flat pattern information from the original part to the mirrored part saving you a huge amount of time during the drafting phase.

The copied sheet metal features are added to the featuremanager design tree of the new part. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. Getting sheet metal information and unlocking properties in solidworks sheet metal parts. If a sheet metal part was created in solidworks 2015 and later versions you get some new check boxes that pertain to specifically sheet metal features when using mirror part feature in solidworks you get the check boxes shown below.

Solidworks sheet metal forming tools form verme araçları duration. Editing the mirrored part sheet metal feature shows the part thickness was transferred to the mirrored part thickness. Solidworks academy 70 550 views. 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. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in.