Extruded Cut Solidworks Sheet Metal

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Extruded cut solidworks sheet metal.

In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold. Adds draft to the extruded feature. As far as i can tell tho sw will only let me cut the sheet metal perpendicular to the face but i need to cut 5 deg from normal. In the sheet metal shop the hole will be punched on the flat sheet before the bend which the sketched bend feature in sw sheet metal for so just create a flat sheet add extrude cut and let the sketched bend feature takes care the rest.

This is available only when sheet metal features are present in the featuremanager design tree. You can make cuts across bend lines. Cutting at an angle just seems to make a larger normal cut. Opens the sheet metal part.

Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude. One of the parts is bent from 1 inch plate which makes me want to model it as sheet metal. Sketches a circle on the selected face. The unfold propertymanager appears.

To cut across sheet metal bends. New in solidworks 2012 is the ability to have an extruded cut across a sheet metal bend that doesn t go through the entire thickness and is still able to be.