Converting to sheet metal in solidworks with no fixed face

#CONVERTING TO SHEET METAL IN SOLIDWORKS WITH NO FIXED FACE PROFESSIONAL#
#CONVERTING TO SHEET METAL IN SOLIDWORKS WITH NO FIXED FACE FREE#

#CONVERTING TO SHEET METAL IN SOLIDWORKS WITH NO FIXED FACE PROFESSIONAL#

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#CONVERTING TO SHEET METAL IN SOLIDWORKS WITH NO FIXED FACE FREE#

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts. Honesty may be the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. If anyone has any other suggestions I am all ears.Log In. Her is the top rail piece flattened and a close up of the relief that is annoyingly automatically added. I used my new process with general better results than before, but the reliefs are still in some complex parts. Note how there are still some smaller reliefs. Here is a quick example of a sweep that is offset in both the x and y axis, and the profile does not stay constant through the curve. I do still however still have issues with the reliefs on more complicated structures. The new 'sheet metal' part with no reliefs: New operation looks as so in my feature tree: I can then un-suppress the 'Process-Bends1' feature in my feature tree, and I get a flat profile of the bent component with no reliefs! Playing with some other settings, I decided to try and simply bend the material by applying Insert>Sheet Metal>Bends to a planar face, and modifying no other settings. This process left some of the larger reliefs in the simple geometry shown above. I had been 'creating' my profiles into sheet metal parts by following the sequence of Insert>Sheet Metal>Convert to Sheet Metal. I did however change my process which has had very favorable results on a majority of the simpler models I work with. Thanks for the tip, but it did not work for me. The Roadster Shop, RE: Dissable Automatic Reliefs When Converting to Sheet Metal hititfaster (Mechanical) 19 Jul 12 08:57 Remember, I don't really care to reassemble the parts bent into an assembly, I simply want to deconstruct a profile into it's flattened profile so we can then cut it out very accurately. My main question is this: How can I dissable or get around the automated relief cuts in SolidWorks sheet metal? Is there another process that would be less time consuming and produce the same results. (The example I am showing here is very simple) I have been getting by simply by filling the reliefs with material before I export them to our plasma tech, but this process is time wasted and slows down our fork flow on complex models. Here are four pieces assembled for a visual reference: The problem is that when I do, I cannot seem to avoid the relief cuts that solidworks automatically produces in each sweep:

I then convert it to a sheet metal part so that I can flatten the part to create the templeate we need to cut from our plasma. I have been using sweeps mainly to assure that I have a gaussian surface to use for creating a sheet metal part. This allows us to be extreemly creative and produce profiles that are strong and very visually pleasing to the higher market customers we serve. We do not mandrel bent existing box tubing, but cut out all four sections with a CNC plasma and tig weld them together. I am trying to create flat profiles for some swept boxed rails that we use to create frame rails for custom tailored cars.

Converting to sheet metal in solidworks with no fixed face