Onshape Sheet Metal Model

They re out at the pacific design and manufacturing show where they re previewing.

Onshape sheet metal model.

It almost sucked me into a rabbit hole but my objective was drawing a driver not experimenting with cool new features. 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. Onshape just announced sheet metal.

Trying to achieve a sheet metal model feature that can be boiled down to something like a bookend. I ve modeled a new bookend to experiment with but i cannot get the middle tab to form properly. Create a sheet metal model by enclosing existing parts. Everything from the creation of the sheet metal part to exporting the flat pattern will be covered.

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. I am working on a sheet metal model and am extruding various parts but i have stumbled upon a problem with an extrude on a flange. Sheet metal model create sheet metal. So i parked it until this evening which i seem to be spending babysitting the cricut as it makes christmas crafts for the girl.

A couple of weeks ago i noticed a new feature in onshape. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets. 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.

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 can t use a flange as it s 0 degree and same for mbartlett21 great shaped flange tool. This tool closes deactivates the sheet metal model and causes the sheet metal part to be treated like any non sheet metal solid part.