From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design

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Adding cuts across bends

Adding cuts across bends - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design

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Adding cuts across bends

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There are many options for making extrude cuts and holes in sheet metal. If you're little bit creative and with a few choice cuts and bends, very intricate geometry can be created. Let's take a look at an example. In this case here, I want to have a tab that sticks out the side of this part and it can be nested inside of this flange right here. To do so, I'm going to choose a cut from the bottom of the part. I'm going to choose that flat face, click on the Spacebar, click on Normal To, and I'm going to come up with a cut. I'm going to start right on that bend line and I'm going to drag out a cut all the way to the edge. Now the width of my rectangle is predefined because I snapped at the edges of the line and the end of the part but I want to add a couple dimensions. In this case here, to the end of the part. I'll type in 1.0 and I'll do the same thing at the top. From there to there, 1.0 and let's go ahead and do a Features > Extruded Cut. What that's going to do is it's going to cut…

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