Onshape Sheet Metal Tab

This functionality is available on onshape s browser ios and android platforms.

Onshape sheet metal tab.

Sheet metal tabs are reflected in the model and in the flat pattern. However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets. 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.

Tab add a tab to a sheet metal flange. Let s take a look. 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. Make joint convert the intersection of two walls into a joint.

You can create multiple tabs with a single feature and you can define a subtraction scope for subtracting tabs from other sheet metal parts. Sheet metal is lightweight inexpensive and easily formed into almost any shape. 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. A new sheet metal tab command was added that makes this a simple task.

Onshape just announced sheet metal. 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. They re out at the pacific design and manufacturing show where they re previewing. Hem create a hem for each edge face selected on an existing sheet metal part.

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