Onshape Sheet Metal Model

Create a sheet metal model by enclosing existing parts.

Onshape sheet metal model. This allows you to perform post fabrication operations on it such as drilling at an angle through a face welding corners and adding form features and custom featurescript features. I have created a variable of etch thickness 0 022 that my sheet metal model uses over and over to extrude parts thickness of etch thickness of sheet metal model. Sheet metal model create sheet metal. Onshape just announced sheet metal.

I can t use a flange as it s 0 degree and same for mbartlett21 great shaped flange tool. In this webinar we took a look at all the tools onshape has for designing with sheet metal. Well there s a reason why today your coffee is tasting especially good why your underwear seems to fit a little better and why you don t have to pretend onshape has sheet metal tools anymore because now they do. Everything from the creation of the sheet metal part to exporting the flat pattern will be covered.

About it i really need the angle to be in the sheet metal version so that when i export a flatten version of the sheet metal model it will have the right length of the flanges. I ve modeled a new bookend to experiment with but i cannot get the middle tab to form properly. A couple of weeks ago i noticed a new feature in onshape. However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets.

This tool closes deactivates the sheet metal model and causes the sheet metal part to be treated like any non sheet metal solid part. Onshape also provides a sheet metal table listing bends and rips where you are able to edit corner radii and joint types as well as create a drawing of the sheet metal part. Welcome to the onshape forum ask questions and join in the discussions about everything onshape. Sheet metal is lightweight inexpensive and easily formed into almost any shape.

It almost sucked me into a rabbit hole but my objective was drawing a driver not experimenting with cool new features. They re out at the pacific design and manufacturing show where they re previewing. Trying to achieve a sheet metal model feature that can be boiled down to something like a bookend.