Onshape Sheet Metal Tab

Creating sheet metal tabs just got a lot easier with onshape s most recent update.

Onshape sheet metal tab.

Well there s a reason why today your coffee is tasting especially good why your underwear seems to fit a little better and why you don t have to pretend onshape has sheet metal tools anymore because now they do. You can create multiple tabs with a single feature and you can define a subtraction scope for subtracting tabs from other sheet metal parts. Flange create a wall for each edge selected connected to the selected edge with a bend. Let s take a look.

And to be able to merge that tab with one sheet metal part while subtracting it from another subtraction scope and specifying the kerf width subtraction offset in a single feature is icing on the cake. Sheet metal is lightweight inexpensive and easily formed into almost any shape. Variable fillet a new option in the fillet command now allows you to create a fillet with a variable radius. This functionality is available on onshape s browser ios and android platforms.

Make joint convert the intersection of two walls into a joint. You ll find the new tab command with the rest of the sheet metal tools in the part studio toolbar. When a sheet metal model is active in the process of being created or edited additional tools are available. Sheet metal tab add a tab to a sheet metal flange remove interfering material if appropriate or bridge two flanges from the same sheet metal model.

Onshape just announced sheet metal. This is absolutely brilliant to be able to use a tab profile sketch that is not necessarily coplanar with the flange to be merged with. Sheet metal tabs are reflected in the model and in the flat pattern. Top 3 onshape updates 09 08 17 sheet meta tab create tabs in sheet metal parts.

However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets. They re out at the pacific design and manufacturing show where they re previewing.