Solidworks Sheet Metal Mirror Part

Creating mirrored sheet metal parts.

Solidworks sheet metal mirror part.

Getting sheet metal information and unlocking properties in solidworks sheet metal parts. 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. 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 mirror part command lets you create a new part by mirroring a sheet metal part. Editing the mirrored part sheet metal feature shows the part thickness was transferred to the mirrored part thickness. There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly. Solidworks academy 70 550 views.

You might also like. Those bends are extended. When you mirror features and bodies in a sheet metal part many of the bends are mirrored as well. Click front plane and click on sketch.

The copied sheet metal features are added to the featuremanager design tree of the new part. Use line sketch l shape dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in. The only bends that are not mirrored are those that are normal to and coincident to the mirror plane. Now you insert a mirror part with the sheet metal information option checked and still linked to the parent part fig.

In this tutorials you will learn how to utilize sheetmetal tool such insert bend and flaten. You can copy the features of the original part to the mirrored part by breaking the link to the original part.