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

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Making closed corners

Making closed corners - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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

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Making closed corners

When forming Sheet Metal, the corners between flanges will normally have a gap that can be undesirable. Solid works has tools for closing the gap, and offers several options on how to build that corner. To get started, let's look at the problem. When I add in a flange, using the edge flange tool, to this edge here, you can see, I can place it up here, and I can control it's length by going up to vertex and make it the same length as these other flanges. So then I click OK. You can see I end up with this big gap between the flanges. It's obviously a lot more apparent when I'm using a little bit thicker material, but either way, it's undesirable. I can also see down here in this region here, I've got a little bit of an overlap between the two flanges, and this region here's probably going to be pulling and causing issues. So first things first, let's go back to that edge flange, edit the flange, and what I can do is, I can open up that corner region by clicking on Trim Side Bends. Click…

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