I am looking to learn Sheet Metal but i can find the manual please help!!!
E-mail: chilidream@tutanota.com
I am looking to learn Sheet Metal but i can find the manual please help!!!
E-mail: chilidream@tutanota.com
Kelvin Lamport wrote:
Start with Help > SolidWorks Tutorials >
See also Sheet Metal in SolidWorks - YouTube
Do ALL the lessons up to and including the ones in particular that Kelvin pointed out.
The Sheet metal manual can be received from your VAR only if you've taken training from them.
The first suggestion that I would have is to either - 1. Get a job at a fabrication shop and learn the process hands on... 2. If you can't get a job at a shop then ask if you could watch the process for a day or more, then follow Kelvin Lamport and Bernie Daraz comments..
Ax Vax wrote:
I am looking to learn Sheet Metal but i can find the manual please help!
I am sure your intent is not to violate copyright laws.
Amazon.com: solidworks sheet metal training
There is also some sheet metal content at http://www.Lynda.com
You can get a leg up on the searches in this forum by going here: https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/208328#760992
John has one specific to Sheet Metal. Try that.
I'm not aware of any books telling you exactly how to do the work, if someone knows of any I would be happy to learn of them.
There are some methods, operations and practices discussed in the Machinery's Handbook and there are a few that appear to be highly technical discussions of practices. Most of those seem to be in die punching and forming where the material might be fed in strip formats and might involve dies that have a few operations and 'progressively' create parts. While the press involved makes one stroke or press at a time the part being fabricated might involve 5 or 10 strokes to actually have a finished part. So no finished parts are actually produced until the fifth or tenth stoke, then of course with every additional stroke you do have another completed part. Most precision sheet metal parts (not conducive to progressive dies) are manufactured in a CNC laser or turret press and sometimes in a combination machine. Aside from cluster tools most holes are created one hit (or laser cut) at a time with the blank being traversed in many directions to allow the machine to perform the actual making of the holes that are required.
Sure that is a simple discussion and relates though not completely the manufacture of sheet metal. Of course additional discussions could be offered that show the blank (flat) development, deburring, forming, welding and many other operations that might be required that would depend on the part itself.
Asking one question might appear to get you many answers depending on the interpretation of your question. There are many chapters in this 'book'. Most may develop specialties in one or two aspects of the production of parts. For me the best way to learn about it was to actually do it. I have done so for 40 years and I happened to love seeing flat parts become 3D (before CAD). In contrast when I started I was machining those parts.To make a six inch square 5 sided 'box' involved much time and a tremendous amount of 'waste'.