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How do I learn how to use the Sheet Metal features?
We don't do a lot of sheet metal, but we do a lot of bent Lexan, and it would be nice to leverage the sheet metal tools to make our parts.
But everything we try and do seems confusing, frustrating, and unintuitive. We'd like to learn more, but there doesn't seem to be an official tutorial on the whole sheet metal methodology.
How can I learn how to use it?
There's basically nothing useful here: https://learn.onshape.com/catalog?query=sheet%20metal
This was a recent part, modeled traditionally, then offset surface > convert to SM just to get it laid flat for CNC.
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The first course in that list is literally the introduction to sheet metal… I will grant you that the name might not be the most helpful but that should get you going!
https://learn.onshape.com/courses/simultaneous-sheet-metal
You are correct that if it is an "Introduction to Sheet Metal", then it is very poorly named.
That course is excellent! I never touched sheetmetal in any cad system before. After that course I designed a whole product around a sheetmetal chassis.