SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design

- Hi, I'm Gabriel Corbett and welcome to Sheet Metal Design with SolidWorks. Sheet metal is a complex industry and understanding the basic processes and fundamentals is essential to designing parts that are easy and efficient to manufacture. SolidWorks has assembled a great set of tools for working with sheet metal, however, it's up to us as designers to use these tools to create parts that are designed well. In this course, I'll go over some of the background on sheet metal processes and the techniques to design manufacturing ready parts.

I'll start by showing you how to design basic sheet metal and cover all the common tools in the sheet metal package. From there, we'll expand our knowledge into more complex, multi-body sheet metal design techniques and assemblies. We'll also go over drawing and documentation techniques and cover the steps required to produce cut patterns and files to send out for fabrication. As a bonus, we'll also be touring a sheet metal fabrication company and learning about the machinery and processes that are required to build sheet metal parts. I'll cover what really goes on behind the scenes on how to design parts that are ready for manufacturing.

Now, let's get started with Sheet Metal Design with SolidWorks.