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SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

Submitted by Ricky Jordan on Monday, September 29, 2008 Comments

The Convert to Sheet Metal feature is a new tool available in SolidWorks 2009 that allows you to quickly create Sheet Metal parts from an existing solid model. Click on the link below to see this new tool in action.

The voice over is getting better….still some room for improvement though!

Stay tuned….more to come!

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arash

is this new feature, powerful and predictable enough to be used in realworld complex applications and as a replacement to the old method?
Thanks!

Ricky Jordan

arash,

I have tried it on a few different parts and the results look really good. I have not used it in a production environment as of yet, but do believe it is a stable tool. This tool opens up a whole new thought process of creating sheet metal parts. If you check out the What's New document, it also has some applications with imported parts. I'll try to cover that aspect of the tool in a later post.

Thanks for reading!

Ricky

Neil

Very good. Actually this reminds me of the UV texture unwrap process in Blender.
I wonder if the concept could be extended to include a flattening of simple pressed parts by least squares.

P.S. It does sound a little like you have sheetmetal underpants but at least there's no heavy breathing with it this time ;) - or maybe you took that out? :D

Ricky Jordan

LOL! Yeah...there was some echo with it. It wasn't there in Camtasia until I processed the video to Flash format. It was late last night when I did it so I figured I would go ahead and post it and work on the audio problems for the next video.

Glad you like the video. I hope folks find them useful.

Ricky