Forgive me guys but there are a lot of nights when I dream of sheet metal and some of those dreams are actually nightmares!
As a follow up to a post I did on the WNC-SWUG website concerning SolidWorks sheet metal flat pattern inclusion on drawings for your sheet metal vendor I would like to present a situation that happened here at Byers. While not directly related it does give us 'sheet metal' vendors a possible solution to a similar situation.
Our customer was designing an enclosure in SolidWorks but he had zero experience with sheet metal. I think that he actually wanted us to teach him how to use the sheet metal tools in SolidWorks over the phone. I saw quickly that this was going to lead to all kinds of problems and confusion. So we told him to just design a box, door and back panel with no regard to sheet metal other than the thickness. We received his drawings and part files yesterday and using the SolidWorks sheet metal tools we easily converted them to sheet metal parts that we can manufacture. Not to say that this would always work...but it is a possibility.
Have fun today while you model something that excites you in SolidWorks today.
Is anyone reading these??
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