Select the fixed face on the model.
How to make a sheet metal box in solidworks.
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Solidworks bend surfaces have to be either conical or cylindrical.
What you can t do is unfold it.
Now if you make the box by creating an extruded rectangle add fillets to all of the edges and corners and then shell the thing outward you can make that into a sheetmetal and add louvers and ports and stuff like that.
This was done by creating a sketch of the top view of the base of the part and setting the material thickness.
Drawing a sheet metal box in solidworks 2010.
The fixed face remains in.
To create a sheet metal part with sharp bends.
There are specific sheet metal features you can use to create sheet metal bodies quickly.
Click insert bends or click insert sheet metal bends.
When designing a sheet metal part as an individual part the first step is to create the base flange.
To add the sides to the box the edge flange tool was used.
Create a part by sketching the part profile then extruding a thin feature part.
Drawing a sheet metal box in solidworks 2010.