Sheet Metal
Sheet metal parts are generally used as enclosures for components or
to provide support to other components.
You can design a sheet metal part on its own without any references
to the parts it will enclose, you can design the part in the context of
an assembly that contains the enclosed components, or you can design the
part within another part document in a multibody environment.
This chapter introduces the SolidWorks sheet metal functionality and
describes: