Fill Patterns In Sheet Metal Solid

Parameters control the pattern layout.

Fill patterns in sheet metal solid. Solidworks will automatically pattern a feature and space it fit within a. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Recent enhancements made to standard patterning make it easy to. Follow simple steps to learn.

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. Accelerate your capabilities with solidworks standard patterning and validate count feature. For these and many other cases the solidworks fill pattern is an effective way to quickly fill planar areas. To create a fill pattern click fill pattern features toolbar or insert pattern mirror fill pattern set the propertymanager options and click.

The fill pattern feature lets you select an area defined by co planar faces or a sketch that lies on co planar faces. The command fills the defined region wi. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal. The fill pattern feature lets you use a predefined shape to fill a space.

The fill pattern feature is an excellent yet little known patterning tool in solidworks. The fill pattern feature can even create its own hole features. Fill pattern which is often overlooked in favor of traditional linear and circular patterns allows you to select co planar faces or a bounding 2d sketch and fills that area with a pattern. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

You can create a sheet metal perforation style pattern or a pattern of concentric shapes typically used to enhance aesthetics. Under sheet metal parameters. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Solidworks pattern feature tutorial complete linear pattern circular pattern curve driven pattern.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop.