Extruded Cut Solidworks Sheet Metal

Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude.

Extruded cut solidworks sheet metal. If the depth of the original extrusion changes the new one changes to match it. This is available only when sheet metal features are present in the featuremanager design tree. Verify that the sheet metal part to open exists. One of the parts is bent from 1 inch plate which makes me want to model it as sheet metal.

Opens the sheet metal part. 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. The unfold propertymanager appears. Cutting at an angle just seems to make a larger normal cut.

The link to thickness option is useful in sheet metal parts because the part must be of uniform thickness. 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. You can make cuts across bend lines. Adds draft to the extruded feature.

To cut across sheet metal bends. In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold.