Curved Sheet Metal Solidworks

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.

Curved sheet metal solidworks.

Solidworks how to create a simple sheet metal part in solidworks. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or to provide support to other components.

Is this possible in solidworks 2016. A quick tour and introduction using the solidworks sheet metal sketch bend feature. You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references to the parts it will enclose you can design the part in the context of an assembly that contains the enclosed components or you can design the part within another part document in a multibody environment.