sheet metal

[immazza]

I'm a beginner.

work in a metal carpentry company; laser cutting, bending etc.
I have a set of .stp files that I imported with solid works and so now they have the .sldasm extension

My question is:

can I with this type of file develop the sheet? I mean, can I make the unfold of the folded piece?

This would be very important to me as there are some complicated assemblies and I would save a lot of time for the development of the sheets.

Then I will verify that the development obtained is truthful according to my tables, but in the meantime I would like to know if it is possible.

my doubt is that in the .stp starting file there is not all information about the folds....., but this is my thought....I repeat I am inexperienced with the use of solidworks... . ! !

Thank you for your help! ! !

Thank you! ! !

 

[SER.CAD]

the step file is a neutral interchange file at the mathematical level it has no parameters related to the features that generate it, but only the topological description of the geometry.

If you care and save it with any cad (I do not use swx) you will find in the feature tree, instead of the list of operations (sketch, extrude, flange etc...) one or more dead body!

Not knowing swx I don't know if there is a command in it to reconstruct the features starting from a dead file, my advice is if your suppliers can pass you a native solidworks, or to extreme evils reshape it over the geometry you have held under as a reference (then at the end of the limit you remove or hide).

Hi.

 

[meccanicamg]

as ser.cad said, stp files are interchange geometry. in swx the plates are parts and not assemblies to be able to put them on the table and make the development. the problem arises from the fact that you do not have the native swx files. with "solid races" or "import surfaces" you do very little. it is possible to recreate the feautures but they are not part of the sheet controls and then in the end you should remodel the single sheet from scratch. Therefore send the original swx files, otherwise you get the old way the developments (mode according to me, meaningless if you have the original files).

 

[sampom]

I'm a beginner.

work in a metal carpentry company; laser cutting, bending etc.
I have a set of .stp files that I imported with solid works and so now they have the .sldasm extension

My question is:

can I with this type of file develop the sheet? I mean, can I make the unfold of the folded piece?

This would be very important to me as there are some complicated assemblies and I would save a lot of time for the development of the sheets.

Then I will verify that the development obtained is truthful according to my tables, but in the meantime I would like to know if it is possible.

my doubt is that in the .stp starting file there is not all information about the folds....., but this is my thought....I repeat I am inexperienced with the use of solidworks... . ! !

Thank you for your help! ! !

Thank you! ! !

the step files have no information, with any cad you open them. in swx are simply "imported races", at the end of "dead races" :biggrin:.
as they told you you can try to make him "reconstruct" the functions (which then does not reconstruct the original functions but if it "invents" others compatible with the type of geometry), only that the results are disappointing and however only in the form of solid functions (extrusions, revolutions, some drilling etc.). absolutely absolutely non returns the original plates.

However, you can transform those single bodies that make up the step of assem (which once saved became sldasm). this is simple and works (of course if those bodies can be traced back to sheet metal pieces... a solid sphere can certainly not turn it into sheet metal); There are at least a couple of methods to do that. go to the sheet menu and study the commands, use the help that is explained.

if you want to post an example file that we see feasibility.
... and specify that version uses solidworks.

greetings
Mar

 

[Mike1967]

the step files have no information, with any cad you open them. in swx are simply "imported races", at the end of "dead races" :biggrin:.
as they told you you can try to make him "reconstruct" the functions (which then does not reconstruct the original functions but if it "invents" others compatible with the type of geometry), only that the results are disappointing and however only in the form of solid functions (extrusions, revolutions, some drilling etc.). absolutely absolutely non returns the original plates.

However, you can transform those single bodies that make up the step of assem (which once saved became sldasm). this is simple and works (of course if those bodies can be traced back to sheet metal pieces... a solid sphere can certainly not turn it into sheet metal); There are at least a couple of methods to do that. go to the sheet menu and study the commands, use the help that is explained.

if you want to post an example file that we see feasibility.
... and specify that version uses solidworks.

greetings
Mar

the sampom post, puts a body that we analyze it, often happens to me those files and most of the times I can keep them good (if it's complicated stuff, I'll redesign them I do first. )

 

[immazza]

thanks for the answers,
However I still haven't solved, as I can't find the command "sheet converges", I use solidworks 2007. .
then I saw that in the menu sheet there is the fateful stretches folds, but of course it is disabled.....
first I have to be able to convert the entity into sheet metal. .
Can you give me some advice?

Thank you! ! !

 

[Marco74]

it may be that the solids that have passed you have not been created with sheet form, maybe they do not have constant thickness, so any cad you use is not possible to convert them into sheet metal.

 

[immazza]

the solids that have passed me (stp file) were created with solidedge and I believe with the sheet module. . .
cmq I can't convert them into sheet metal.... .

 

[sampom]

it may be that the solids that have passed you have not been created with sheet form, maybe they do not have constant thickness, so any cad you use is not possible to convert them into sheet metal.

They're steps. in any way they were created when you open them with the cad result of "stupids"biggrin imported bodies, without history or attributable features.
must first "transform" them into sheet metal and then can do what you want.
@immazza. for now you don't need Stretch pleats (you will use it later, once you make the transformation); for the conversion in sheet with 2007 (meeting to remember) you must use the command insert folds. follow the help from the property manager that is simple.

greetings
Mar

 

[immazza]

Thank you! I did.

just with the insert-lamiere-piegature command.... !

then with the command stretch folds!! !

thank you all!!! !