Fill Patterns In Sheet Metal Solid

Parameters control the pattern layout.

Fill patterns in sheet metal solid.

Recent enhancements made to standard patterning make it easy to. The feature can also be used to quickly create perforated pattern types. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal. The command fills the defined region with a pattern of features or a predefined cut shape.

Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. To create a fill pattern click fill pattern features toolbar or insert pattern mirror fill pattern set the propertymanager options and click. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

The fill pattern feature lets you use a predefined shape to fill a space. The fill pattern feature can even create its own hole features. Solidworks pattern feature tutorial complete linear pattern circular pattern curve driven pattern. This tutorial shows step by step how to use linear ci.

Parameters control the pattern layout. The fill pattern feature is an excellent yet little known patterning tool in solidworks. This usually adds tens or hundreds of instances of a feature so as you can imagine the instance count is important because no one wants to sit there and count each perforation. Follow simple steps to learn.

You can create a sheet metal perforation style pattern or a pattern of concentric shapes typically used to enhance aesthetics. In this video i explain how fill patterns can be used to quickly create complex types of patterns. Solidworks will automatically pattern a feature and space it fit within a bounding area usually a face. He primarily focuses on solid and surface modeling features and helps with sheet metal weldments and toolbox.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. The fill pattern feature lets you select an area defined by co planar faces or a sketch that lies on co planar faces. If you use a sketch for the boundary you may need to select the pattern direction. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.