From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
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Designing the cover - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
Designing the cover
Once we have the base part roughed out, now we're ready to get started with a cover. What I'd like to do is build a part that is built in context around the base part. So any changes to the base will automatically be reflected in the cover. And it'll auto-scale to size. To do so, let's go ahead, and first take a look at the finished part. You can see here, I've got the cover and the base together. And there's our cover. And then I jump over here and look at the cover itself. You can see I've got a big, long radius bend here. I've got a little tabs here we're going to be adding later. And then I've got a series of vent holes along the edges. So you can start with that. Let's go up here to New > Start a Part and click OK. Now that I have a part open, I could start a sketch and start creating some lines to create that shape. However, what I really like to do is do that in context in my assembly. So first, let's go up to File. We're going to save as 2.2-2. Save that and let's build an…
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