Extruded Cut Solidworks Sheet Metal

In the sheet metal shop the hole will be punched on the flat sheet before the bend which the sketched bend feature in sw sheet metal for so just create a flat sheet add extrude cut and let the sketched bend feature takes care the rest.

Extruded cut solidworks sheet metal.

To cut across sheet metal bends. Creates cut extrude2 which is an optimized normal cut extrude. If the depth of the original extrusion changes the new one changes to match it. You can make cuts across bend lines.

As far as i can tell tho sw will only let me cut the sheet metal perpendicular to the face but i need to cut 5 deg from normal. Opens the sheet metal part. Open the immediate window. In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold.

One of the parts is bent from 1 inch plate which makes me want to model it as sheet metal. The unfold propertymanager appears. This is available only when sheet metal features are present in the featuremanager design tree. The link to thickness option is useful in sheet metal parts because the part must be of uniform thickness.

Sketches a circle on the selected face. Verify that the sheet metal part to open exists.