Half shear ML Mel Lewis 04/03/2010 Hi, Does anyone use half shears for precise locating two pieces of sheet metal to be joined. How do you create them? How do sheet metal shops …

Dec 3, 2015 · Hello SolidWorks forum ! I am using SW2014 to re-construct side plate sections of a vintage recording console, I have drawn out the sections, and I have tried to use a custom …

Jul 19, 2017 · WELD02 being the larger one. WELD02 also had to be set ‘higher’ to clear the half shear from WELD01. We would put at least two of these on mating parts for location during …

I have been asked by a few of my customers to create a sphere shape out of sheet metal. I was wondering if anyone knows the best way to create this in Solidworks.

Like others it seems flattening a sheet metal part, adding holes, then unflattening means you lose the holes. The solution posed in the past is to create a part, create your folds, unfold it, add the …

Working on a metal part that will be laser cut and CNC bent. Biggest issue I have run into is a why I cant "normal cut" extrude through the sheet metal pieces without getting the an error saying …

Jul 14, 2020 · I just started school for engineering and was able to download a student edition version of solidworks, but I can't find the sheetmetal tab on my toolbar.

I'm working on a round sheet metal part, material thickness of .012in, basically a barrel. I drew the barrel as a sheet metal base flange to get a flat blank. Added a male and female dovetail to …

I've got a simple sheet metal part where I need to chamfer the ends for welding, and roll into a half circle (ish). I've tried going about this many ways and they've all failed. The company I work for …

Mar 22, 2016 · Hi All, I'm trying to model a sphere from sheet metal, well two half spheres, as shown in the attached image. Using the swept flange feature makes modeling the actual …