From the course: Inventor: Sheet Metal Design

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Starting with a face

Starting with a face - Inventor Tutorial

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Starting with a face

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When creating a sheet metal part, you want to seek out the most complex profile on a plainer face and that's usually the best way to start. Just like you would with a base feature in any sort of solid model. Let's take a look at how the face tool can be used to develop the fundamental features as well as some more advanced applications. As you see here we have a completed sketch it's ready to be developed into 3D. But instead of using extrude or loft, where we would have to select our profile and create some sort of distance, remember we have our sheet metal defaults. We have the rules that know what size our sheet metal's going to be manufactured as. So we can take advantage of that using the face tool. When I select the face tool, it automatically grabs the profile that I have. If I had more than one profile, I could select which one I want to use. In this case, it's very simple. Its already pointing in direction. We can reverse that direction if we want to. Otherwise, we can just…

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