Extruded Cut Solidworks Sheet Metal

One of the parts is bent from 1 inch plate which makes me want to model it as sheet metal.

Extruded cut solidworks sheet metal.

Open the immediate window. 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. The unfold propertymanager appears. 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.

Verify that the sheet metal part to open exists. If the depth of the original extrusion changes the new one changes to match it. In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold. Sketches a circle on the selected face.

You can make cuts across bend lines. Cutting at an angle just seems to make a larger normal cut. Opens the sheet metal part. The link to thickness option is useful in sheet metal parts because the part must be of uniform thickness.

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. Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude.