When you place the forming tool on the sheet metal part the faces that you selected for faces to remove are deleted from the.
Sheet metal forming tools solidworks.
Before you apply forming tools to sheet metal parts in the design library you must right click the folder that contains the forming tools and select forming tools folder to designate its contents as forming tools.
Select one or more faces as the faces to remove.
In the following image you can see how a forming tool is dragged from the design library onto the sheet metal model to form the part.
Click forming tool sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal forming tool.
Solidworks forming tools are found in the design library and are used to form sheet metal parts.
This applies to forming tools that are part files sldprt not form tool sldftp files.
Open a sheet metal part and browse to the forming tools folder in the design library.
When asked if you want all subfolders to be marked as forming tools folders click yes.
In the propertymanager on the type tab.
There are a number of useful tools here.
Before you apply forming tools to sheet metal parts in the design library you must right click the folder that contains the forming tools and select forming tools folder to designate its contents as forming tools.
Right click the folder and click forming tools folder if forming tools folder is already selected omit this step.
There are a set of forming tools for punching sheet metal models inside the design library in solidworks.
You can find these items in the forming tools folder.