Thursday, October 17, 2013

SolidWorks Lofted Bends for Complex Sheet Metal Parts

CATI's monthly contribution to the SolidWorks Blog was posted this week. This month I chose to write about how to flatten complex sheet metal parts with SolidWorks Lofted Bends. The article is based upon a some common questions that we get from customers. The article has two detailed examples of how we can build a model and then use the edges of that part to create the profiles needed to create a Lofted Bend in sheet metal and ultimately be able to flatten the part for manufacturing.


Example 1 is a helix shaped part.




Example 2 is how to create a part generated with the SolidWorks Wrap tool.




To view the article use the link below.


http://blogs.solidworks.com/tech/2013/10/solidworks-lofted-bends-for-complex-sheet-metal-parts.html


Josh Altergott


Support Manager


Computer Aided Technology, Inc.


www.cati.com



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