Hello everyone,
For my first CAD class, I have to make a fictitious car draw by myself and then model it on solidworks in volume and then in sheet metal bending.
So I draw the car, I model it in volume. So far everything is going well.
Then I try to get it to bend sheet metal and that's where all the problems start.
When I try to transform my car, the software tells me "cannot be a folding edge because one of the corresponding faces is not flat".
So I took the three main parts of the car (part of the Advent side, the left side and the right side) and then I redrew the sketches of the upper parts of the vehicle to transform them directly into sheet metal folding.
But I don't understand how I can connect all these parts together so that I can do a proper unfolding and pass the modeling part of my exam.
Hoping I have been clear enough.
and thank you already to those who have taken the time to read this little post \o/
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Hello
You would have to use the stamping function to make these kinds of parts.
Mmm... We didn't learn that in class, I'm going to see a tutorial to understand how it works.
Thank you for your answer :) .
Does your car have to be realistic or roughly shaped in sheet metal?
Rough shape, time that I know how to print it afterwards to be able to build it in cardboard and place it on a small robot/vehicle.
Oh well, that's different... Do you have any knowledge of sheet metal functions?
Uh... (x)
I don't think so (x).
Dsl the corrector beugs sometimes, I wanted to write sheet metal...
Ah okay haha.
Mmm... Not just the bent base sheet metal bases, convert to sheet metal, unfold, bend and extruded material removal.
Here is a little tutorial so that you can start, then it's up to you to continue and look for a little; because we are here to guide and not to achieve everything.
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Oh, thank you so much.
So I don't have to give a thickness to the plate.
And to make the mudguards of the car, you advise me to do a stamping?
Well, when you create the sheet metal function, you will have to enter the thickness.
Well thank you very much for your help :).
If the idea is to print it (on paper/cardboard apparently) and then do some cutting/folding, I think you can forget about the stamping function (paper doesn't lend itself to this kind of manipulation at all).
At first, you should go for a basic car as designed by small children (or almost). Experiment with simple shapes to find what can be folded out and what can't.
Look at SW's help to find out about the existing sheet metal functions (it is available online), do the associated tutorials if you can.
Do you have knowledge of sheet metal practices?
Just the basics, each time we did an exercise, the objects were always basic in shape (rectangle, square...) but never complex in shape like the rounded parts displayed on my drawing.