Convert Boss Extrude To Sheet Metal

Select both these circles.

Convert boss extrude to sheet metal.

Shell the block to 1mm so the part is of uniform thickness. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Showing the results of convert entities tool and extrude boss command.

The extruded boss base feature can be found on the features tab in the command manager interface as shown in figure 1. This is why you will often find that people will create a very small flat section using a boss extrude to create a flat section at the end. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

It may have been difficult to see in the video but if you are dead set on using the convert to sheet metal command you need to have a planar flat face. That means if you have closed contour sketch drawing then you can add materials to that contour and convert it into 3d model. Every few releases this feature gets some terrific functionality added to it. This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal.

To create a part of uniform thickness and convert it to sheet metal. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Extrude boss base feature is mainly located in features command manager or insert menu. Extrude these circles by selecting extrude boss tool.

In today s blog we will review and break down some of the great tools available in each section of the extrude command. For more information about solid. Under sheet metal parameters. An extruded boss base feature will allow you to take a 2d sketch and add thickness to it in the third dimension.

No the edge of your sheet metal part doesn t count. Exit the sketch and see the diagram in 3d we now have circles on the reference plane. Make it normal and choose the convert entities. Showing the final results.

In faces to remove select the faces as shown. Create a block with the extruded boss base tool. Using the extrude boss feature you create 3d models like block cube cylinder 3d polygon 3d elliptical shapes etc.