Onshape Sheet Metal

Topics include creating sheet metal parts the sheet metal table and flat view and defining other settings.

Onshape sheet metal.

Sheet metal tab add a tab to a sheet metal flange remove interfering material if appropriate or bridge two flanges from the same sheet metal model. Sheet metal is lightweight inexpensive and easily formed into almost any shape. This functionality is available on onshape s browser ios and android platforms. Onshape s new sheet metal tools were created to streamline the collaboration between designers and fabrication shops.

Onshape s approach to designing sheet metal parts has many advantages. Onshape saves you time with parametric modeling 2 0 a fundamentally better way to model using multi part design configurations simultaneous sheet metal tools standard content and managed in context design. However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets. Using a roll form machine in sheet metal is also very common the simplest form is a cylinder but shapes can also be made with varying radi and i have the need to the incorporate this with sheet metal bends.

Introducing onshape sheet metal february 14 2017. However i am having trouble determining the rotation axis once i have split the underlying sheet metal model. Select the edges or side faces along which to create hems. Designing with sheet metal in onshape april 18 2019.

I am in the middle of trying to make a featurescript that lets the user fold a sheet metal part. Here s an example of a part i d like to unfold with rolls and bends. To create one or more hems on existing sheet metal parts first have a sheet metal part in the part studio. While in a part studio click.

Choose a direction using the flip arrow. In this webinar we took a look at the sheet metal tools available and how to get the most out of them. Engineer ı product designer ı onshape consulting partner. Sheet metal tabs are reflected in the model and in the flat pattern.