Cut A Slot In Sheet Metal

If you re cutting 125 steel with a 0625 em try cutting no deeper than 0313 per pass.

Cut a slot in sheet metal.

Green or red metal snips or hand shears can cut sheet along curves as well as straight lines but they will distort both edges badly when making internal cuts on a piece of aluminum sheet. Clamp the sheet metal to the plywood. When the part is flattened it is also a normal to cut. Punching operation in which rectangular tool is used to cut a rectangular slot in a sheet metal part is known as slotting.

Once you select the green check the slot is created just like the extrude cut feature. For those cases try a set of metal shears which create a small slot in the metal removing a thin center piece while leaving the metal sheet flat. Place a piece of plywood on a table or the floor. Make sure it is completely on the piece of plywood so the sheet metal does.

You should be fine. Make sure that when you are drilling into the sheet metal you. If the slot is close to the part edge make a throwaway aluminum jaw to secure in the solid jaw and cut through into that. Solidworks then wants you to select the face in which you want to create the cut.

This is just a couple of ways to create slots on curved surfaces. More information on this tech tip available at. Lancing operation in sheet metal lancing is a type of punching operation. If it s sufficiently far away from the jaw then it s a very simple cut.