From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
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Adding vents to the design - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
Adding vents to the design
It's now time to add the vents to the design. I want to open up just the cover piece. So, you can see here, we have the sub-assembly here, and assigned to that sub-assembly is this part, which is the cover. Go ahead and click on Open Part, and there's just the cover piece. Now, what I want to do is just add the vents along this edge, here, but I want to roll it back prior to those two Mirror commands, so I'm only seeing this one quarter, so we get the benefit of using that Mirror command and using the Mirror Body, which is going to propagate those events to all four sides. Starting at the top, start a sketch. And, I want to draw a rectangle, which is going to be my vent hole. And, my vent is going to be roughly down here. We'll make it a little bit over-sized at first. I'm going to click on this edge here, and I'm going to click on this edge here. I'm going to make those two co-linear. And then, I want to make sure that this vent's kind of on-center. So, I'm going to add a point to…
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