Workflow

This topic describes a suggested workflow when working in Sheet Metal Design.

This task shows you how to:

Define the Sheet Metal Parameters
Create Sheet Metal Features
Refine the Sheet Metal Shape
Transform the Sheet Metal Shape

Define the Sheet Metal Parameters

Define parameters to create the first feature. See Editing the Sheet Metal Parameters.

Create Sheet Metal Features

Create the first feature. See Creating Walls from a Sketch.
Create walls from the edge of the first wall. See Creating Walls from Edges.
Create extrusions. See Extruding.
Create hoppers and rolled walls. See Creating Rolled Walls.
Create flanges, hems, tear drops, and user flanges. See Creating Swept Walls.
Create bends. See Creating Bends from Walls.

Refine the Sheet Metal Shape

Create holes, cutouts, circular cutouts, and threads. See Creating Holes.
Create corners and chamfers. See Creating Corners and Creating Chamfers.
Create flanged holes, beads, circular stamps, surface stamps, bridges, flanged cutouts, stiffening ribs, curve stamps, louvers, half-pierce stamps, and dowels. See Creating Standard Stamping Features.

Transform the Sheet Metal Shape

Duplicate features and create patterns. See Patterning.
Perform translations, rotations and symmetries. See Creating Isometries.
Create and instantiate power copies. See Managing PowerCopies.
Generate an order process and extract it in a drawing view. See Managing an Order Process.
Generate an unfolded view of the Sheet Metal shape in a drawing sheet. See Integration with Drafting.