SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal - Enclosure Part Design
Throughout these lessons, we will be creating a sheet metal part for an electrical enclosure confined and driven by a design envelope along with various tools including the edge and miter flanges, bolt holes, a vent, and various other features. Software required: SOLIDWORKS 2012 and up.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons, we will be creating a sheet metal part for an electrical enclosure confined and driven by a design envelope along with various tools including the edge and miter flanges, bolt holes, a vent, and various other features. We will cover the creation of a portion of an electrical enclosure to house equipment for assembly line processing machines. You will also learn how to apply basic properties for your sheet metal part, a base flange, edge flange, miter flange, the hole wizard, and the vent fastener feature as well as various options and methods. Ultimately, a sheet metal part model is created and ready to be assembled with other sheet parts, components, and fasteners to create an electrical enclosure. Software required: SOLIDWORKS 2012 and up.
Table of contents
- Introducing the Sheet Metal Part for an Electrical Enclosure 8m
- Exploring Our Design Envelope with the 3D Sketch Tool 7m
- Creating Our Design Envelope Using 3D Sketch 12m
- Continuing Our Design Envelope Using 3D Sketch 11m
- Creating Our First Sheet Metal Feature 9m
- Incorporating a Galvanized Sheet Metal Gauge Table into Our Model 9m
- Adding the Edge Flange Sheet Metal Feature 11m
- Adding a Miter Flange to the Right and Left Sides of Our Sheet Metal Part 10m
- Creating an Edge Flange for the Top and Back of Our Part 12m
- Adding More Sketch Entities for References 12m
- Applying Sketch Geometry from Our Design Envelope 12m
- Creating Our Sketch Geometry for the Vent 10m
- Creating a Fan Vent Using the Vent Fastening Feature 9m
About the author
Chris Scarlett is a teacher and designer with 14 years of experience in Computer Aided Design program at various schools, a regional engineering firm, and for many of his own clients. He is extremely proficient in AutoCAD, Revit Architecture and SolidWorks. Many of his students describe their experiences in his project oriented classes as being efficient, effective and productive. A leader in his department at Central Washington University in "flipping" his teaching methods, he posts his classro... more