In solidworks 2020 you can thicken a surface by specifying a direction other than normal to a face with thicken and thicken cut features.
Thicken a sheet metal part solidworks.
After the shell command you had a wall thickness of 0 80 yet the sheet metal was using 0 60.
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I still find many operations in sheetmetal limiting but this is one thing that does provide significant freedom.
Before any bending you have to cut the sheet metal.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
The following example shows the thicken both sides option.
The model isn t perfect aka the relief cuts but i think is closer to what you are looking for.
Under thicken parameters do the following.
If you are cutting a multibody part set the feature scope options.
Import other file types into solidworks.
In the graphics area select a surface to thicken.
Import parts into solidworks then use the rip feature to create thin cuts in sheet metal geometry between adjacent flanges.
When you create a sheet metal part you have one sheet metal feature part thickness and as many sheet metal.
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Insert bends to convert the model to a sheet metal part to flatten and further edit the part.
There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.
The real power of solidworks comes when you have to design bent sheet metal a task which looks simple but really isn t.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
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The direction for thicken or thicken cut can be a linear sketch entity two vertices or sketch points cylindrical or conical faces reference planes or axes and so on.
That means you need a contour of the sheet metal to be cut known as a flat pattern.
There are several possible ways to go about it.
Under sheet metal parameters.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
Since you want to end up with sheet metal parts having a constant thickness you might want to delete all the faces except one side of the part turning your solid model into a surface model and then thicken the surface model.
Examine the preview and select the side of the surface you want to thicken.
If your design can tolerate these variances this is certainly a good reason to use sheetmetal for parts that are not simply cubical.
Use rip feature to create thin cuts.
