designing solidworks parts for waterjet manufacturability...
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Designing Solidworks Parts for Waterjet Manufacturability:
Starting a Part, Adding Flanges, and Exporting a File
GeorgiaFIRST Manufacturing Partnership
Procedure Developed by Gwenevere Wrye, Kell Robotics, 2017
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Table of Contents
Starting a Part……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Adding Flanges……………………………………………………………………………………………… 8
Exporting a File…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10
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1. Open the SolidWorks application
2. Click the new button
3. Make sure the “Part” button under the new window is highlighted
4. Hit “Okay”
Starting a Part
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5. Right click on the quick access toolbar
6. Select the “Sheet Metal” Option
7. Click on the “Sheet Metal” tab on the Quick Access Toolbar
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8. Click on the “Base Flange/Tab”
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9. Click on the Front Plane
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10. Click on the rectangle icon under the sketch tab
11. Click on the red arrows in the middle of the screen (the Origin)
12. Click on any other place on the plane to create your rectangle
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13. Click on the “Smart Dimensions” button
14. Click on one side of your rectangle and enter a number into the “Modify” box, this will become the dimension for one side of
the bottom of your part
15. Repeat steps 13 and 14, clicking on a side perpendicular to the first one clicked
16. Click Exit Sketch
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17. Set the “Sheet Metal Parameters” to the desired thickness– the thicknesses available through Georgia FIRST’s partnership with
Novelis are 0.063in, 0.090in, and 0.125in
18. Click the check mark under the base flange tab
The piece just finished will become the bottom/ base section of the part, to make a part with bends, add flanges
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Adding Flanges
1. Click “Edge Flange” under the “Sheet Metal” tab
2. Select an edge on your part to create your flange from
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3. Set flange to desired length
4. Leave the bend angle at 90 degrees (only type of bends that can be manufactured with the tools available through GA FIRST’s alliance with Kennesaw State University)
5. Click the check mark
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This is how your finished flanges should look. This method adds a bend, followed by a panel that is CONNECTED to the base flange
to create an additional flange. Adding a rectangular panel to the side of a part is NOT a flange and CANNOT be printed.
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Exporting a File
1. Click “Flatten” under the “Sheet Metal” tab
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2. Right Click on the “Flat Pattern” tab under the features list (left toolbar)
3. Click “Export to DXF/ DWG”
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4. Select “DWG” in the description bar
5. Set the file name to something you will remember, then add “_DWG” to the end
6. Click “Save”
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7. Click the check mark
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8. Make sure the illustration in the black box contains all the holes you want to print and click “save”
Make sure your file is saved in a place you will remember
9. Click “Flatten” under the sheet metal tab to refold the part to how it will look when finished
10. Click the drop down menu next to the save icon (floppy disk)
11. Click “Save As”
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12. Set the file name to something you will remember, then add “_STEP” to the end
13. Open the “Save As” menu and select “STEP AP214 (*.step;*.stp)”
14. Click Save
Make sure both the DWG and STEP files are saved in the same folder.
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