Working from Drawings: A Challenge

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Pnakovich

is this metric or english?

English. The title block would explicitly mention this, but again, I can't show that

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

If it has decimal points in the numbers, then in my experience 90% of the time it's English (or imperial) but that's a good question none the less.

That said, the sheet-metal feature in Solidworks is kinda irritating when you first learn it, (my bends always ended up going in the opposite direction at first) but things like this can be cranked out in no time with some practice. It's actually really cool, the K factor determines what your true radius willl be depending on your final desired angle of the material and the material type.

Good stuff, although to cheat (not that I would ever do that in Solidworks ) I would just extrude the profile and call it a day.. lol

I'm pretty good with the sheet metal features, especially since you can usually just extrude a profile of the finished part and let Solidworks backtrack and figure out what sorts of bends are needed to get there. I have to use the sheet metal features since the vendors like to have the pattern drawings and it's the easiest way, by far, to get them -- though I've seen work by some other folks to get the patterns out that borders between genius and insanity.