From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
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Using the Flange tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
Using the Flange tool
The Flange tool is the same button as the Base tool. However, if you provide an open sketch, that sketch is used as a profile and the bends are pre-generated. If you leave the angle sharp, they autofill with the default radius, or you can overwrite the default radius by adding fillets to the sketch. Lets take a look at a couple of examples. In this case here, I've got a sketch open on the front plane, and I've got three line segments to finding my sheet metal piece. And I've got a couple of the pieces that are undefined, but that's okay. Let's jump over to sheet metal tab, click on the flange tab. You can see I've got a preview of exactly what kind of, shape that I'm going to be getting when I turn this into a sheet metal part. I can drag it out a little bit to show you, what it's going to look like. And notice I've got the material here on the outside of the sketch. If I were to flip that over by clicking on Reverse Direction, it moves it to the inside. I can adjust thickness here…
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