147 SolidWorks Sheet Metal tutorial Sheet design approaches; Base Flange;

this is tutorial number 147 and it is
the second tutorial in the sheet metal
series in this tutorial we are going to
talk about these points first we are
going to talk about some approaches when
starting she little bought drawing or
design there are many approaches
depending on the shape of the party
although to make and then we're going to
talk about the first command in sheet
metal be this flange and we will see
what will be new on the tree on the
sidewalks tree when we are starting the
sheet little command in general and then
we are going to talk about the key
factor and how it is related to the
material properties as we know there are
different shapes for example steel
aluminum cover so on and they're not
going to learn a little bit about
flatten so let's go to the this part we
shreya started go to sheet metal and you
see here the this flash and beside the
paste class you will see covert -
meter looked at them and then you have
the forming tools as you notice we have
all the two commands which are activated
and the rest are deactivated and they
will be activated to end once we start
the sheetmetal tree so now let's talk
about a process when you start to draw a
sheet meter
they are basically according to be
shittin convenien four approaches to
start or to make achievement and product
you have the base flange which is the
mostly used and it is almost 90 percent
of the sheet metal products or credit by
the use both pins clutch then we have
the if you have a little bit more
complicated shapes then you have
they loved them or you can create by
other commands like solids which are
then converted to the sheet metal as you
see here convert to sheet metal or by
forming tools which is kind of die mold
now let's start using the base flash at
the beginning to make easier you can
imagine the best glance exactly the same
like being extrude to the sheet metal we
can press directly on the disk flange
then we pick the plan we want to draw on
it I just click text or we start as we
used before picking the plane that we
need then blow the ship this big before
plan start sketch I'm going to make a
simple L shape let's give it some
dimension let's give this 50 and here 25
go to sheet metal and selling the piece
flange so as you notice it just extruded
the L shape with thickness here you see
the base flange menu I'm going to talk
about the very basics for now we are
already familiar with we want to talk
about the directions the sheet metal
parameters and for the rest we are going
to talk in the next tutorials we are
going to talk a little bit about the bit
allows K factor now let's go back to the
extruded cheat meter here you can pick
the thickness you have for 75 millimeter
I can put it 1 millimeter you can notice
that the difference does make it make it
clear 5 millimeter you have the
thickness of the chip meter
then you have the bend radius you notice
a we did it at any radiuses at the
corner but this is the bending radius it
is the logical when you have them
becoming cheat you give this radius and
here you can specify this radius if you
already know the value so let's put two
millimeters for that building and then
if you go to the very first option
direction it is very similar to the
extrude you have game there you can
increase the extrusion of the length of
this beam and then you have the election
tool we are already familiar with that
we talked about that in the extrusion so
you can leave you can extrude on the
direction - there's the activate
direction - oh now here you have again
the same options similar what we used an
extrusion I want to pick leadplayer
then you have your storyboard leadplayer
extruded and there you have under the
thickness reverse direction that where's
your little you need to be placed the
reverse direction you will notice the
sheet metal is you should decide a
reverse direction it will be outside the
shape and you know we are done with the
shape click OK and then we have our then
the cheat Peter we talked about the base
flash a very basic explanation then we
will have to look up teach it in the
tree as you
the difference between extrusion and the
ship meter here you have four elements
instead of one element in case of
exclusion you have the Cutlass then you
have the sheetmetal the best flash
feature command and then you have the
flattened so this for starting every
time you use the shipment of commands
and here you notice the sheet metal
sermons are activated the elements of
the sheetmetal tree the this force
discovers the flattened and sheet metal
we are going to talk about them in
details in the next tutorials but right
now I am going to just hit it as we
learned before when we need to edit any
feature go to the base flange and edit
feature and you will notice you have
only the basic options or appeared which
we discuss it you have the extrusion
distance which you can you're able to
change and you have the thickness and
millimeters the reason for that is cheap
metal when you start the sheet metal
commands it assumes the whole part will
be the same type of sheet metal so there
is no need to specify for the time the
thickness and the bending radius because
it is the same width all the same sheet
metal for some reason if you wanted to
change the thickness or dependence
radius you can override the values over
here and again we as we discussed before
let's just click OK and to get to the
sheet metal or parties or the material
properties you have the sheet metal here
if you click Edit and this part is
related to the material properties we
said that we're going to talk about that
in the later tutorials still bit about
the k-factor so as we know there are
different types of materials different
the
materials for sheet you have steel
aluminum cover and so doors got
collected depending where just when you
are bending a piece of metal for example
you are bending a sheet of steel you
will not get the same dimensions when
you are bending a piece of aluminum and
that is defined by bit allowance of the
leaf or the gauge table so k factor as
we said there are different materials
harder the materials decay factor will
be bigger softer the material
the cave backbone will be smaller this
is a very basic relation of the
expectation of building a sheet of metal
so now let's just click OK well the last
thing we have the flat pattern we will
going to talk about that in detail and
spirit tutorial the flatter the flat
pattern when you builded this sheet of
metal you can again return to the
original shape by on suppressing this
future this feature is suppressed on
this glass button and on suppress you
will get again
that piece with the before bending
if you visit from the flat button you go
to the exam flower button here the
corner