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Model Sheet Metal Tray With Rendering | FreeCAD Tutorial | Mechnexus |
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May 19, 2025
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welcome to free CAD tutorial and in this tutorial we will learn how to model
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this tray in free CAD with the help of a sheet meter workbench and we will use
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dynamic data add-on to control the dimension of our tray you can also visit
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of coffee you will get my website link and my Ko-Fi donation page link in a
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video description so I will close this file and I will create a new file and
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here I have installed the dynamic data add-on and if you have not installed it
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then simply go to the tool then add-on manager and search for the dynamic data
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and install it so I have already install it so first I will create an object here
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and here on the object tab I will add a property so here the property window
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will pop up so here if you see on dynamic data add-on we can create values
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for length acceleration angle direction distance so many things here we can
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create but as we are modeling a simple sheet metal tray so we need only length
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dimension so here if you see here name DD means DD stand for the dynamic data
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and here on the length you can assign any value here so for example here on the
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length I will give here my tray length I will keep everything small tray length
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and tray length I will give 100 for time being so you can see that here tray length has been
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added I will add one more property here I will say tray width tray width and my tray width will
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be 50 I will say ok so you can see here the two properties has been added length
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and width now we will create our part so for this we will switch to the part
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design workbench and insert a body first and then we will click on the sketch and
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from here I will switch to the isometric now we will draw our base plate base
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sketch on a top plane so first I will create a rectangle because it is a very
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simple tray of a rectangular shape now I will use the symmetricity constraint
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and I will select these two points and the center points I will give the
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vertical dimension 100 and horizontal 150
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now we will click on our dimension 100 and click on the enter an expression
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so here first type dd dot and type tray so you will automatically get here tray
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length it is a doesn't matter whether you give your value in a small or capital
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letter so I will select my tray length and I will say ok so you can see here in
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a transparent you can see 100 mm and then I will say ok so you can see that
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once you link the dimension its color is change you can see that 50 dimension is
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an yellow color and it is in a different color because it has the link values so
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that is the difference now simply we will click on our 50 mm dimension and go
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to the enter an expression and same way we will type here DD dot tray width and
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I will say ok so you can see here 50 mm has been pickup so this is how we have
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link our length and width now we will close and now we will switch to the sheet metal workbench
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I have already installed the sheet metal workbench if you have not installed it then simply go to the
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tool and add-on manager install it now select on the sketch and click on the
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base wall so you can see that our base feature has been created to see its
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property just click on it you will see the property here so length is 100
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radius is 1 mm and thickness is 1 mm if you want to change then you can change
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it but I would like to keep it same value now we will create the four flange so
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for this I will select the all four corners and click on the make wall so now you can see that flange has been created but
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it is in a opposite direction so for this click on your flange and you will
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find here one property called invert so here you will see the invert which is false just
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make it true so that your flange direction will be get reversed now I will make two flange
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here so I will select this edge and this edge and I will simply click on the flange so you can see that our flange has been created but I want in a opposite direction so I will click on my bend and go for invert and I will
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say it true now here you can also either keep material inside or outside so once
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you click on the bend you will get here option of a bend type if I click on the
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material inside so that flange will go to the inside now simply I will do on
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the other side so I will select this edge and this edge and click on the
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flange and same way we will reverse the directions by clicking on invert true and
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material we will keep inside now
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we will go to our first flange and we will milter it so for this
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auto milter set it false and give the milter angle
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milter angle to the 10 degree let's see
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10 and
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so you can see that 10 degree has been created here but I wanted to make on other side as
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well so here I will give the 10 so you can see that for our both the flanges
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milter has been created now we will activate our second flange and we will do the same thing here
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so set auto milter false false and give the angle 10 degree 10 and milter angle 2 also 10
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now I will show you an isometric so you can see that both the side angle has
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been created at this side as well now this is a very simple tray of 100 by 50
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now let's move to the dynamic data add-on and here I will make it 200 let's see
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so you can see that once I make the 200 my tray length has has been increased
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now if I go to the width and width I also give the 200 so you can see that tray has been modified very beautifully
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now we will give our width to the 100
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so you can see that been changed to the hundred now we will render this sheet metal tray using the
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cadres for this head over to the Google and search for the cadres so you will be
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directed to the open cascade.com slash products slash cadres it is a free so
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once you scroll down then you will find here download boundaries for the windows
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which is the cadres 1.0 just download it once you download it it will be
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downloaded as a zip file and now let's launch the cadres now you will get a zip
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file of a cadres once it is downloaded extract the zip file and go to the
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cadres and here you will get cadres.exe run it and here cadres is open now we
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will switch to the free cad and we will export our body as a step file so we will click on the
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export and select here the step and we will save it as a same name click on the save say ok now
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move to the cadres go to the file sections click on the import and here
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select the model sheet metal tray which are a step file click on open and click
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on import so you can see that our tray is imported in a cadres now we will
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select our body go to the material section select on the metal and from
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here I will select the chrome because it is a steel now let's wait so that it get render
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now you can also customize some settings from here let's
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change some setting reflect option roughness so let's you can drag it from left to right to get the roughness and let make it more
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fine little bit ok now we can also give some texture from here you can add the textures
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so I'm not going much more depth of the rendering but this is how we have
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successfully modeled the sheet metal tray and we have render it in a free cat so
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