The typical sheet metal manufacturer, forexample, is not familiar with terms such as faces and extrusions,rather used to terminology such as flanges, cutouts, and bend areas. This new tutorial can be ...

Process Assembly for Sheet Metal Parts: Automatically creates DXF flat patterns from sheet metal parts in an assembly. Process Single Part: Export DXF flat pattern from the currently open sheet metal ...

In the following video tutorial, Hawk Ridge Systems application engineer, Bjorn Sorenson, demonstrates Solidworks 2014’s new sheet metal capabilities.

Holes, patterns, and cutouts occur frequently in sheet metal parts and their creation is crucial to modeling these parts. "SolidWorks for the Sheet Metal Guy - Course 2: Hole Patterns and Notches” ...

Power-SM is a sheet metal add-in for SOLIDWORKS. The main purpose of this add-in to perform tedious operations Sheet Metal CAD files and let mechancial design engineers focus on the design. Many ...

Getting the right flat pattern is essential to manufacturing a quality part. "SolidWorks for the Sheet Metal Guy - Course 3: Unfolding” shows you how to set up and use the bend tables in SolidWorks as ...

Forming Technologies Inc. has released BlankWorks v5.0, which provides SolidWorks® 2013 users with a fully integrated, add-in application for developing optimal flat patterns from complex, 3-D designs ...