AutoCAD Training Overview

This training guide enables students to create features that are specific to the sheetmetal modeling process. Students are provided with a process-based approach to creating sheetmetal models. Each step in the process is discussed in depth using lectures and several hands-on exercises. This training guide focuses on the Generative Sheet Metal Design workbench.

AutoCAD Training Topics

• Generative Sheet Metal Design workbench
• Sheet metal terminology
• Sheetmetal process
• Sheetmetal parameters
• Primary wall creation – Profile, Extruded, Rolled, and Hopper
• Defining walls
• Secondary walls – Wall on edge (automatic and sketch based), Tangent, Swept
• Cylindrical bends
• Bends from flat
• Unfolded view
• Corner relief
• Point and curve mapping
• Creating standard stamps – surface stamp, bead, curve stamp, flanged cutout, louver, bridge, flanged hole, circular stamp, stiffening rib, dowel
• Punch and die
• Punch with Opening Faces
• Sheet metal features – Corners, chamfers, cuts and holes
• Feature duplication
• Patterning – rectangular patterns, circular patterns
• User patterns
• Converting a solid part to sheet metal
• Output to DXF and drawing