Solid Edge Using Multi-body design to Emboss a Sheet Metal Part

2022-08-23T12:44:03Z
PART/SHEETMETAL

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In this example a customer designs industrial sinks using Solid Edge Sheet Metal Part Design.


In order to get the angled surface where water can drain into the sink they use a workaround which involves creating a Cutout, then a Surface Extrude from the edge of the Cutout which is then used to create two Surface by Boundary features.  These features are then all Stitched and Thickened before doing a Thin Part to Sheet Metal Transform.


This is quite a long and complicated process which would require quite a lot of reworking if the design were to change.  Is there a simpler way to achieve the same result?

Solution

A simpler approach would be to use the Multi-Body Design functionality available in Solid Edge.  This would allow you the flexibility of defining a separate solid body using Extrude, then define the angle for the draining surface, either by a Cutout - as shown here - or applying a Draft feature.


The final step would be to use the Emboss command and use the Multi-Body part as the tool to stamp into the main design body.

 

Using Multi-Body design and Emboss would make the design cleaner and more robust.


Notes

KB Article ID# PL8573069

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PART/SHEETMETAL: FLAT_PATTERN