Fill Patterns In Sheet Metal Solid

In this video i explain how fill patterns can be used to quickly create complex types of patterns.

Fill patterns in sheet metal solid. Solidworks pattern feature tutorial complete linear pattern circular pattern curve driven pattern. Fill pattern which is often overlooked in favor of traditional linear and circular patterns allows you to select co planar faces or a bounding 2d sketch and fills that area with a pattern. This tutorial shows step by step how to use linear ci. You can create a sheet metal perforation style pattern or a pattern of concentric shapes typically used to enhance aesthetics.

The command fills the defined region wi. For these and many other cases the solidworks fill pattern is an effective way to quickly fill planar areas. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop.

To create a fill pattern click fill pattern features toolbar or insert pattern mirror fill pattern set the propertymanager options and click. Recent enhancements made to standard patterning make it easy to. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. The fill pattern feature lets you use a predefined shape to fill a space.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. This is typically done to add perforations to sheet metal parts. Solidworks will automatically pattern a feature and space it fit within a. Under sheet metal parameters.

The fill pattern feature can even create its own hole features. The fill pattern feature is an excellent yet little known patterning tool in solidworks. This usually adds tens or hundreds of instances of a feature so as you can imagine the instance count is important because no one wants to sit there and count each perforation. The fill pattern feature lets you select an area defined by co planar faces or a sketch that lies on co planar faces.

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Parameters control the pattern layout.