Working with Sheet Metal in SolidWorks

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Go to View –Toolbars – to get the Sheet Metal Menu Select the Base-Flange/Tab and Select a Plane

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Place a Center line and Sketch the Profile Lines

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Exit Sketch (Enter the Depth, Thickness and Bend Radius)

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Using the Extruded Cut Feature to Create a Cutout

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Create a Miter Flange – Line and Arc Sketch

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The Miter Flange Propagate around Corner Automatically Creating Angled Cuts

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Using the Mirror Command to create the Mirrored GeometryNorman F. Simms

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Offsetting and Extending Edges (Creating a Flange)

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Editing The Flange Profile

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Mirroring the Flange about an Existing PlaneNorman F. Simms

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Adding a Tab to the Flange

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Bending Tab with the Sketched Bend Command

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Unfolding Flange

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Extruded a Cut

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Folding the Cut Flange

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Creating an Angled Flange

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Extending the Sheet to the Selected Edge

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Create the Flat-Pattern By Unsuppresing the Flat-Pattern in the Feature Manager Tree

or Unfold the Sheet Metal Menu using the Unfold

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SolidWorks Sheet Metal CAD technology is easy to use and a lot the hard tasks are done for you, whereas in other CAD programs the calculations would have to be done beforehand.

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