From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
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Reviewing the Base tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
Reviewing the Base tool
In this course, we're going to walk through the building of a sheet metal enclosure for electronics. This is an intermediate level course, and I'm expecting a base knowledge of SolidWorks and the understanding of the basic sheet metal tools. If you're not quite up to speed, I would recommend checking out my SolidWorks Essential Trainings course as well as my SolidWorks sheet metal course. However, we are going to review a few of the key tools in this chapter. The first tool is the Base tool. The Base Flange Tab tool is the basic building block for most sheet metal parts. This same tool can work in three different ways, depending on the input you give it. If you provide an enclosed shape like a rectangle, the Base tool will extrude the shape very similar to the regular Extrude command. This extruded thickness will be linked to the sheet metal thickness selected in the dialogue box. Let's go ahead and give it a try and fire up SolidWorks 2014. Now, if you're not using SolidWorks 2014…
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