Learning Path Courses:

• Rules and Standards Course

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  Rules and Standards Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 12 minutes)

  Course Description

  In this course, you will learn how to work with sheet metal part styles and standards.
  The Autodesk Sheet Metal environment is specifically built for thin, uniformity thickness parts.
  The purpose-built sheet metal environment has tools designed for thin parts that can be flattened.

  Comments

  Sheet Metal parts are commonly used to create guards and brackets in a design.

• Faces and Flanges Course

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  Faces and Flanges Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 15 minutes)

  Course Description
  In this course, you will learn how to create faces and flanges in a sheet metal part file.
  When building sheet metal components, you will use specific commands in the environment.
  Fundamentally, the face and flange commands will be the most frequently used to create sheet metal parts.

  Comments

  The task in building sheet metal parts is creating faces and flanges.

• Bending and Folding Course

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  Bending and Folding Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 20 minutes)

  Course Description

  In this course, you will learn how to modify your existing sheet metal part by adding, rolls, hems, folds and bends.
  Sheet Metal parts often require the need to connect faces together, roll over existing edges or to fold over un-bent faces.

  Comments

  Modify existing sheet metal components.

• Seams and Corners Course

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  Seams and Corners Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 10 minutes)

  Course Description

  In this course, you will learn how to modify sheet metal parts by applying rounds, chamfer and comer relief.
  Sheet metal parts often have flanges on adjacent edges creating the need for corners relief.

  Comments

  Modify your sheet metal part with rounds, chamfer and comer relief. Course content could include wall, floor, column, chair/lighting placement

• Flat Pattern Course

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  Flat Pattern Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 15 minutes)

  Course Description

  In this course, you will learn how to flatten a folded model and edit for fabrication.
  Once your sheet metal design is complete it is necessary to convert the folded model to a flat pattern for manufacturing purposes.

  Comments

  All bends and folds will be flattened using the unfold rules.

• Punching Course

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  Punching Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 10 minutes)

  Course Description

  In this course, you will learn how to create and place Sheet Metal Punches.
  Sheet metal punch tools are iFeatures with extra attributes that cut simple or complex hole shapes in a face of your part, including across a bend.

  Comments

  Reuse complex geometry easily and create a library of common shapes for sheet metal.

• Sheet Metal Documentation Course

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  Sheet Metal Documentation Course Outline

  (Course Duration: 6 minutes)

  Course Description

  In this course, you will learn how to Place and Annotation sheet metal parts in a drawing.
  Creating a drawing for sheet metal part is a similar process for other models but incorporates additional tools to support sheet metal.

  Comments

  Sheet Metal parts require extra View placement and dimension tools.