Helping Other Users Via The SolidWorks Community

Online blogs are a very good source for information when you need it.  I myself have found information on various topics many times simply by reading technical posting on blogs on a variety of topics.

This weekend someone posted a question about sheet metal functions in SolidWorks:

 

Now I will be the first to admit that I am no expert when it comes to sheet metal tools in SolidWorks.  As a former mold designer, we simply never used them in out designs.  So I posted the question on twitter and within about 20 minutes or so had a few very good responses:

 

I also asked a colleague of mine who answered yes to question #1, and in regards to question #2, yes, but only in 2009 and newer versions.

Perhaps if anyone has any further input to the original question they can comment below.  Thanks to the Twitter participants for allowing me to share their responses.

Comments

[buy acai berry]

I wasn't going to comment as this post was written a while ago, but I found myself asking a lot of questions when I read it. I think it is important to find the blogs that you read regularly and stay involved in the discussion in a regular, relevant and timely manner. So I'll be back and see whether you'll be answering :o).

[chris]

I think you are right that this works but honestly it seems hard to follow. I like much better what Ben has done with www.SolidJott.com and www.ProJott.com (Ben where the hell is www.VuuchJott.com?) becuase the conversation is kept togehter and can be found later by others. And to plug Vuuch I think what we have done / are doing with Public Discussions adds to the Jott approach.

Vuuch Public Discussions:
1) http://blog.vuuch.com/?p=368
2) http://blog.vuuch.com/?p=356
3) http://blog.vuuch.com/?p=393

When you create a public discussion versus a team/private discussion Vuuch make it available for any forum to post and comments in the forum go back to the people/person who created the discussion.

[chad Schmidt]

I've used Inventor before and I recall being able to do this. I tried this in SW with no success though. The problem with SW is that it has no wrap feature for projecting the cut onto the rolled face. The only way SW can do this is first unfolding then cutting then refolding.