Sheet Metal Design

Hi-Tech specializes in delivering sheet metal design support services for metal components and equipment. Gain the flexibility to rapidly and cost-effectively develop sheet metal part designs using SOLIDWORKS 3D design, accelerating the design process, development costs, saving time and increasing productivity with our experience and expertise in sheet metal design.

With a team of certified sheet metal design experts and technologically advanced engineering facility in India, we have been delivering CAD outsourcing services to support metal fabricators and manufacturers globally. We have developed extensive experience in sheet metal for furniture design for office, residential and commercial needs, building products and outdoor products, doors, frames, windows, kiosks and steel panels to machine tools, automotive parts, industrial products and process equipment.

We also have extensive experience in developing 2D manufacturing and fabrication drawings, 3D models and virtual simulation for aluminum roof racks, custom metal fabrication, aluminum trays, railings, stairways and other sheet metal products.

Through our broad market understanding on sheet metal manufacturing technology, we utilize CAD and CAE tools like SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD, DriveWorks, Inventor, SolidEdge, Pro/Engineer, Ansys, etc. to deliver accurate design data to manufacturing units, to bring down lead times and reduce material scrap.

Our experienced design professionals and mechanical engineers further helps in preparing accurate cost estimates as well as optimize the manufacturing process through accurate design information on sheet metal bend allowance/deduction, tables for punches, holes, bends and welding and viewing complex flatten patterns.

Our sheet metal design services include:

• Design support for 2D and 3D solid sheet metal parts and assemblies drafting & modeling using DriveWorks
• Convert 3D models or import CAD models directly to SOLIDWORKS sheet metal models and input your own thickness, bend radius, and K-factor
• Design around a group of parts in an assembly and Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Generate base, edge, miter, and swept flanges, bends, including lofted bends, sketched bends, and more using SOLIDWORKS
• Use bend tables for bend allowance/bend deduction and forming tools to create features like ribs, louvers, lances, embosses, and extruded flanges
• Add weld details to sheet metal parts on models or drawings
• 3D sheet metal model and complete 2D flat drawings, assembly drawings from manual blueprints, manufacturing drawings, fabrication drawings, nesting drawings
• Cost estimates based on material and number of operations and calculation of the adequate size of corner reliefs, bend angles and radii
• Automatically flatten parts to generate flat patterns for manufacturing with bend compensation and estimate sheet metal part manufacturing cost as you design
• 3D CAD modeling and animation and CAD conversion from conceptual sketches, PDF, image, etc.
• Accurate sheet metal forming design with critical dimensions, embosses and offsets, bend radius, bend relief, forming near holes, form height to thickness ratio, and edge distortion for manufacturability
• Effective sheet metal stamping design for shearing, cutting or stamping dies & tools with precise blanking-corners, notches and tabs, cutoffs, piercing holes, edge-to-hole clearance, forming-bend relief, edge bulging, hole-to-form, slot-to-form, drawing shapes, and drawing radii
• Efficient sheet metal parts design for any equipment with acute bends, counter bores & countersinks, curls, dimples, embossments & ribbing, extruded holes, gussets, hems, holes / slots, lances & louvers, notches & reliefs, welding, and plating