Forming Tool for Sheet Metal
Forming Tool for Sheet Metal
(OP)
Can NOT get this working - Help file does not help.
- Do I have a choice to produce my own forming toll ? Like in Indent - or must I use what's in the Library ?
- The forming tool - is it in a separate file or in the part file ?
- give me some simple steps one by one - I am sure it's simple but I am convinced I am missing/misunderstanding some critical steps.
- Do I have a choice to produce my own forming toll ? Like in Indent - or must I use what's in the Library ?
- The forming tool - is it in a separate file or in the part file ?
- give me some simple steps one by one - I am sure it's simple but I am convinced I am missing/misunderstanding some critical steps.






RE: Forming Tool for Sheet Metal
C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\data\design library\forming tools\custom
You can then access it
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RFUS
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Simple and understood.
This part I do not understand - could you please explain in simple English what the stopping and what the faces to remove are.
Thanx
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RE: Forming Tool for Sheet Metal
Next, imagine that you've picked a second face on the tool to be a face that is removed. After the forming tool is pressed into the sheet metal and removed, the face of the feature created on the sheet metal that corresponds to the face that is to be removed is deleted from the sheet metal part. Imagine that you had a tool to create a louver. The area of the louver that is open would be a solid part of the forming tool, but by selecting it as a face to remove, it isn't translated to the sheet metal part.
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
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Thanks folks - I finally got it working - my main error was that I thought the forming tool was to be in the same file, just not merged (multibody), as in Indent case. ...
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Next question - after I made the lance I was trying to locally bend it further using icon "sketched bend".
It won't - says: "Failed to make the sketched bend"
Is it not possible or am I doing something wrong ?
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The Sketch Bend only works on sheet metal and the Lance isn't a true SM feature.
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What else is not a true SM feature ?
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