SolidWorks 2015 Tutorial 007 Sheet Metal

SolidWorks Sheet Metal Tutorial for Beginners ~ Shows how to make a simple sheet metal part and then Save-As a .DXF file to send to the Metal Cutting CNC Laser or Water-Jet ~ Also shows how to add extra bends and cut holes in the Sheet Metal Part :-)

[@carlosmaffessoni4638]

One of best lectures I've seen so far: simple, clear, precise and showing all details. I liked particulary when you show many ways to do the same step and "mass property" features. Thank You!

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Thank You for your kind comment :-) I did these tutorials for the fun of it hopefully to give help to others that I did not have when I was learning to use SolidWorks. Many of my tutorials have poor audio, and are not presented well, but do show steps of which I hope will help others. Creating in SolidWorks is like creating in real life because the more one learns SolidWorks the more you will see what can be accomplished with it ... the only difference is you can draw many different versions in SolidWorks and it doesn't cost anything to create & test items is SolidWorks prior to making the real-world item :-)

[@carlosmaffessoni4638]

Like an ordinary food, but well spiced/sauced and well done! Most things can be great but not necessarily must be sofisticated. So, many YT videos are incomprehensible, poor sound and some are made only for "deaf-mute" person because has no sound! My native language is portuguese and for me your video was easy to understand.

[@toolmanoffroad]

Just wanted to say thank you! As a brand new user of Solidworks I have been watching many videos and by far you have the best pace and details that a new user needs. I have been rewinding and pausing while I try to copy the items you are drawing and it seems to work the best so far. Please keep up the good work.... we need you! :-)

[@charlesmarlin6632]

+toolmanoffroad I will try to do more videos like the 'Sheet Metal Tutorial' in the future, people seem to like that one ... Maybe you can give me some suggestions of features would like to know more about and/or items you would like to draw :-)

[@mark2727]

I'm a AMT student at Tulsa Tech, and I recently downloaded solid works student version so I could learn and do some projects. I am grateful that you don't have an accent because the guy who does the S.Wks. vid's on their tutorial channel sounds like he's outsourced from Cat-man-doo or something. Thanks for posting because we just finished our unit for Aircraft Drawings and I had to do my project "Old School"... Pencil & Paper... T-square's n Triangles...

[@BrickJunkies]

Excellent tutorial !!! Very clean and easy to follow. I really like the fact that you show multiple ways of doing the same thing, as well as little tricks as you go to make the process fast and easy. I've been teaching myself Solidworks via KZbin for about 3 years now. This is the 1st time I have needed to start using sheet metal features, and yours was the 1st video I watched on the the subject. I have subscribed to your channel, and will be looking up your videos 1st from now on when I get stuck. Thank you for spending the time, and making it so easy !!!

[@goldeng]

I'm new to SolidWorks and looked for good tutorials - I'm so glad I found yours! I enjoyed this one very much; so easy to follow, covers detailed workflow and not only that, you also explain how to do things in multiple ways as I saw others here mentioned too. You're rock man! Thank you so much and keep up the good work! :)

[@garyrowlands8537]

Man you are good, great pace, great options co complete similar tasks and lots us useful little 'asides'. I will be back for sure. Thank You Gary

[@allenalahari4030]

Thank you for the tutorial creating the TV Stand. Nice job for explaining how to create the part.

[@dommanera2708]

you should be hired by solidworks to put your tutorials into the programming. thank you so much

[@steveb391]

Thank you, very clear instruction and walk through. I am in a Certificate Program for CADD software and everything and anything like this helps. Appreciate very much.

[@dirtlifemagazine]

Great tutorial! I like how you show multiple ways to do the same thing.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Thank you for the note :-) Feel free to suggest some other SolidWorks features to make a tutorial video about.

[@dirtlifemagazine]

+Charles Marlin I just got started with Solidworks. If I come across something I will definitely comment. Thanks again!!!

[@GERARDOBORDA]

Please don´t stop teaching us you are just great !!!!! Thankyou!

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Thank you for the nice comment :-) I usually wait for someone to ask me a question and then I try to make a video to help understand that SolidWorks feature better :-)

[@sirstudious177]

not only instructional, but the calmness of your voice is similar to Bob Ross.

[@sedwards99]

As a new operator the pace you have is the best yet. Well done and if you can do structural weldments also that would be great.

[@ralphmourad7716]

Thank you for a very informative step by step video I have learned a lot from watching it, and I look forward to many more

[@ManjitSingh-vw2qy]

Excellent way of teaching

[@craigwatkins7011]

Nice video, the cadence is really good and the instructions and steps are clear. Thanks

[@aminationtv7476]

great video. it upgraded my skills to next level! thanks

[@llv32_yere64]

Great help designing aluboats, you've got yourself a subscriber, exelent video and well explained.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

I usually wait for a question from someone on a specific SolidWorks feature and then try to explain it while making something in KZbin Tutorial ... I do a lot of 3D-Printed items now: ctmprojectsblog.wordpress.com/ :-) Thank You for the Note

[@llv32_yere64]

How do you make a sheetmetal or fill the gaps when you build roll cage kind of stuff?

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Tweet me @MetalDesigner a photo on Twitter of what you are talking about and I will see if I can draw that feature and make a tutorial video

[@michaelhathaway496]

Thank you for posting this. It helped me quite a bit.

[@marcel911]

Nice and slow tutorial with good explanations. I have subscribed and look forward to your other Solidworks videos. Thanks.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

+marcel911 Many of the Tutorials don't have audio because I make the screen-captures and then go back and narrate later; therefore, on some of the videos I make them without audio to get them done faster because someone has asked me a question about a specific SolidWorks feature and just trying to get something back to them quicker :-) Let me know if you have a question about something specific or how to draw something :-) CHEERS!!

[@konturgestalter]

Please make more videos about how to build different parts! I learnt so much from 0 so far!!!

[@huanganda1128]

Thank you very much, I learned a lot of knowledge from your video, this video is very valuable, I fully recommend.

[@dalwinderkalsi2543]

Good job, excellent video, well explained. Thank you

[@El_Jaco]

Thank you! Great tips and tricks and great video.

[@andreazigiotto3764]

Thank you Mr. Marlin for your job!! :)

[@dillydallydollcomachineand8246]

Sweet!!!! That is all. My Best As Always, Tighe

[@charlesmarlin6632]

CHEERS!!! :-)

[@soto12soto63]

thanks for the tutorial , well done !!!

[@punjabilog]

Thank you very much sir its really help full video, Kind Regards for uploading

[@ivanildolopes4335]

Excellent Video!

[@agrisarturs]

What version of Solidworks should id get if i want to make a folding chair, then see if it actually folds in the program and also have ability to print things out? Should i use solidworks 3D CAD, Electrical, Technical communication, Simulation or Product data management?

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice video, thanks :)

[@michaelpellegrim2493]

Great Job! Thanks!

[@dudleybarker2273]

great tuts man, just one small problem - we know the US is big, but please consider going metric. from SolidWorks own website: "...3,246,750 users at 240,010 locations in 80 countries..." from Google: "...only three countries-Burma, Liberia, and the US-have not adopted the International System of Units (SI, or metric system) as their official system of weights and measures..." this means there are more metric users than non-metric - it just kinda makes sense to change. ;)

[@charlesmarlin6632]

D'accord avec vous sur l'utilisation de la mesure, je suis content que vous ayez écrit vos pensées parce que je peux diriger les individus vers votre commentaire comme une logique de sauvegarde supplémentaire quand je leur suggère de passer à la mesure. Quand je travaille sur mes objets personnels 3DP, j'utilise la métrique, si quelqu'un me paye, j'utilise IPS dans SolidWorks s'ils demandent (Inch, Pound, Second) qui malheureusement est la plupart du temps aux Etats-Unis pour concevoir des objets pour la construction aux USA Je pense que l'impression 3D convertira plus de gens aux États-Unis en métriques parce que la plupart des imprimantes 3D par défaut à mm ... Toutes les vidéos sont basées sur une question (s) que j'ai reçu de particuliers et j'utilise Le Système d'Unités qu'ils demandent est généralement en pouces, mais dans le futur, j'utiliserai simplement la métrique pour les encourager à faire un essai parce que c'est beaucoup plus logique. ... intéressant, en grandissant j'ai utilisé PSI et appris la plongée sous-marine pour mon travail en utilisant PSI il ya plusieurs années, donc je continue de plonger en utilisant PSI, mais sur d'autres articles, je lis kPa :-) CHEERS de Las Vegas !! Voici une question intéressante? Quelle langue pensez-vous que tous les pays devraient utiliser lorsqu'ils fournissent des commentaires sur des dessins / modèles CAO utilisant le Système international d'unités? Si tout le monde utilise (SI, ou système métrique) alors serait-il logique de faire en sorte que tout le monde utilise une langue? Devrait-il être latin ou devrait-il être basé sur la population? ... ou devrait-il être basé sur le pays le plus influent en ce moment? Je pose la question parce que j'ai beaucoup plus de problèmes avec les barrières linguistiques que la métrique ou le pouce que je peux changer en cliquant sur un bouton dans SolidWorks.

[@dudleybarker2273]

Charles Marlin thanks for your reply - now i have to wait for my Canadian friend to wake up so that she can translate. love your work, btw - new to SW, but I've noted the dearth of good tuts on what appears to be the oldest 3D CAD software in town. not a decent manual to be had either, unlike Rhino, InDesign and many others, which have detailed, fully illustrated manuals freely available. anyway, hope your throat is better by now. greeting from Afrique de Sud.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

I'm just having fun with the French... You can copy/paste it into Google Translate and see how what I wrote in English translated pretty well into French and then back to English ... I used Google Translate to go from English to French so be fun to know how much it butchered in to French from your friend ... and it will make sense why I did it when you read the note with my thoughts on an international engineering language to go with Weights & measures. I think everyone should use metric for weights & measures ... and, in the future, it may be helpful in this global community of engineers to come up with a Global Engineering language because I have far more difficulty dealing with translation errors from friends in Japan & Estonia than conversion from mm to inch. Wonderful thing about SolidWorks is I can send a metric SolidWorks part or assembly file to someone I am working with and in one click of a button they can switch from mm to inch and visa versa ... but the translation of languages just isn't very good right now because the subtlety of description doesn't translate well ... Maybe with future AI translators it will be better or almost perfect, but I think there is probably one language out there that is better at being universally translated more corectly than others... or maybe a new engineering language will be created? :-) ANYWAY... Thanks for your note ... Funny thing is here at 2:24am in Nevada, I am drawing up a SolidWorks inch part at the moment for a friend because the metal casting pattern was originally carved out of wood 100+ years ago using inch measurements for use on a Vulcan Steam Engine made 100 years ago in 1917 ...So I am using inch because easier to figure out the logic of why the parts measurements are what they are ... then the 3D-Printed pattern is scaled up 1.6% to account for the amount the molten metal is going to shrink so the measurements end up being very unusual dimensions (easy to do with SolidWorks Scale feature around origin or centroid) ... Nice thing about measurement systems is they are human created... I could measure my cat's tail with 2 pencil marks and create other named dimensions from that 'Rosie's-Tail' distance and then use gold at -40 degrees F or C as my base for weight and create my own measurement system :-) Question? What do you think would be a better basis for measurement than metric uses now? I like water & distance speed of light travels in a specific time ... but I don't like current TIME measurement used ... I know they use atomic clocks, Crystal vibrations, etc... just seems they took the easy way out on the time part of the metric system. The second was originally based off Earth ... but at what time in history of Earth? ... because Earth rotation and/or rotation around the sun isn't the same today as it was a billion years ago and will not be the same in 1 billion more? 1879 is the best year of all history, I guess *grin* We can compensate and use Electron Transition Frequency to describe a second, but it was still based off something that changes over time... not a good thing for weights & measures :-) But then I guess we are back to my cat because any random unit of time could be used as the basis and then justified later with a physical representation of that time ... Just having fun!! See what happens when you contact one of us nuts that get stuck out here in the Nevada desert working on very weird stuff :-) CHEERS!!

[@dudleybarker2273]

hey Charles, you made my day, man! (i'm back at my PC for a bit now - too hot to work anywhere right now - worst drought in the Cape in 100 years - 4.5mil peeps looking down the barrel of a gun right now) wow, so many thoughts tumbling out in the desert there :D i don't know where to start - first let me say that i enjoy your voice - it's very calming, which is what a new user wants to hear - as to metrics, my parent's generation (i'm 52) grew up with LSD (pounds, shillings and pence), so we still measure height in feet and inches, and other such rough measurements, but when it comes to the fine stuff nothing beats the metrics. i was going between your story and google typing in such weirdnesses as 1+7/8" going wtf is that, haha - how on earth does 3mm (width of a standard ripsaw blade) become 0.11811" - it boggles the mind that people can be so stubborn, and i guess the ultimate irony is that a country that expelled the UK forcefully from it's law-making processes, should still cling so desperately to an outdated and pretty silly system of weights and measurements - let's hope you are right about the 3D printer thing (maybe the Chinese will force their hand... waffle waffle).. as to a standard for language i can only imagine that one will eventually come about - probably a sort of Esperanto with strong influence from China and Russia (maybe that's just Firefly and The Expanse talking) but until that, time i think we're stuck with a mishmash of Anglo-Saxon and whatever else we can toss in there... (what's so great about 1879?) the rest, i'm afraid, is well over my head, mate - i am but a simple artisan with aspirations of being a draftsman - nothing high-flying here. gotta dash, chat soon (christ, it's hot). ciao.

[@SE45CX]

Thanks sir for this great video tutorial, it is really helping me to use the right program features for the right task. Could you help me bit with some terminology issue? I'm looking for the right term for the sheet metal property of having the inside of a bend to curl over the edge when it is bended. so along the bend axis the material will expand in size. Especially with large thicknesses. I want compensate for that using some shallow cut but i don't know the term for it. Can you push me in the right direction? And ideally what is Solidworks feature to do just that?

[@allenrnewbauer]

Thanks for posting

[@nguyentri5467]

Thanks for your good tutorial

[@VellemaRacing]

thanks you for this tutorial! :)

[@tooshort3515]

great video!

[@MrKremli]

How do you get the lines etc. ('constrains') to go black immediately? Thanks for the video.

[@donypetani8648]

is very helpful..how to make dimension on the flat pattern sir..

[@DrussQuinn]

Great video. On an unrelated note, the imperial system is incredibly backward.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Agree!! I convert in my head between imperial and metric, so don't really notice or care what people use. Customers that use imperial pay the same as metric, so happy to welcome both because it is just one click of a button in Solidworks to switch between metric and inch :-) Hope the video helped :-) CHEERS!!

[@tcasante1820]

Good work thanks

[@toddcook2766]

Do you know how to change a bent corner into a ripped corner? I have modeled a box but to better utilize material I want to change which edges are bent and which are cut without having to start over.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

+Todd Cook Would have to see the part ~ I tend to first draw my parts as normal SW parts to get fit-ups and then go back and quickly redraw them as Sheet Metal parts so I already know what I need when using SolidWorks Sheet Metal Features to create very accurate Flat-Patterns to cut on the WaterJet or Laser :-)

[@meixcriminal21]

Thank You! Great tutorial.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Meigo Mõttus I haven't had a lot time for a few months but now have some free time to make more tutorial ... Do you have any suggestions for future subjects for SolidWorks Tutorial videos? Anything you would like to know how to do with SolidWorks?

[@meixcriminal21]

Charles Marlin I am so glad You asked. Is there a way to contact you? Or could you mail me your e-mail address to [e-mail]? I've got a letter or a request for you I wouldn't want to type into this comment section.

[@charlesmarlin6632]

Meigo Mõttus Sent you an email :-) CHEERS

[@freedom4iranianpeopl]

thank you

[@charlesmarlin6632]

aryan I haven't had a lot time for a few months but now have some free time to make more tutorial ... Do you have any suggestions for future subjects for SolidWorks Tutorial videos? Anything you would like to know how to do with SolidWorks?

[@saeidtaheri2124]

Hi Thanks for nice training I want prepare my self for cswp-sheet metal ,do you have a good resources to introduce to me or send it to me

[@charlesmarlin6632]

+Saeid Taheri Here is a Link to a PDF with a CSWPA-SM Practice Exam :-) www.solidworks.com/sw/docs/CSWPA-SM_SampleExam.pdf

[@gutierrezca123]

How do you rotate the image so easily?

[@knaussenheimer]

13:59 yeah you didn't do anything wrong. Just had the center of the octagon selected as well. SolidWorks loves to snake you like that.

[@jangrusovnik4787]

how do you get the shining surface?

[@charlesmarlin6632]

+jan grusovnik This Link to this Video is how you change the Part to a Shining Aluminum and also Change the Color if you wish :-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZyYk6t7ot6ega8 :-)

[@jangrusovnik4787]

+Charles Marlin Thank you! :)

[@l301681]

thx

[@cobalt789]

This guy is the bob ross of CAD

[@charlesmarlin6632]

That's what I was shooting for :-) ... That's Ok, it's not a mistake, we'll make it into a happy tree with a bird on it ... :-)

[@cobalt789]

Well, you nailed it! Great tutorial and very helpful as I'm getting into water jetting and working with sheet metal.

[@justintriplett6880]

Your voice makes me sleepy

[@PANDURANG99]

It should not take 28 minutes

[@khanitime]

mruczy coś i tyle

[@rickdeguise]

Good job, excellent video, well explained. Thank you