How To Sheet Metal Box

The patterns for a cardboard box will look very similar to what you need to plan out for the sheet metal box.

How to sheet metal box.

Creating a 22 gauge sheetmetal box from scratch. Now you will need to secure the corners with smaller pieces of metal. Ihope you find this interesting and got inspired by this. Lay out the panels for your box on the sheet metal using the measuring tape and the permanent marker.

To make things easy for my students i designed our classroom box so it would be able to work on the size of a standard 8 5 x 11 piece of paper. I have a graph paper drawing in the pics below but its not for this box 2 trace your template on to your piece of sheet metal as pictured i suggest 20 22 gauge steel 3 cut your piece into the same shape as template. The box i have my students create in class ends up being 5 5 x 2 x 3 5. Follow simple steps to learn.

Measure the height of the box. 1 first you want to make an expanded template for your box out of cardboard paper etc. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. Shielded metal arc welding with a borax flux covered rod normally.

Use the corner notcher to cut out any right angles. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal. A flat version of your box. Video tutorial includes cutting the sheetmetal template and bending the pieces on my 24 grizzly box pan b.

Cut four strips of metal each long enough to reach from the bottom to the top of the box and wide enough to be bent in half and secured usually about an inch or so on each side so 2 3 inches total width. I used recycled sheet metal from computers and dvd players etc.