From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
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Using and customizing the Ribbon - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
Using and customizing the Ribbon
The ribbon is your go to place for all the sheet metal tools. From the start there are lots of great tools available, however you can also customize the ribbon with more tools to suit our needs. To get started let's go over the basic tool locations. At the top here you see there are only 2 buttons that are actually active, it's base flange tab and the forming tool. And when we get started with designing a sheet metal part using the base or flange feature, these other tools will become available. We also can turn on other tools and tool palettes. We can do that by right-clicking on any one of the tabs and coming down to the very bottom here and click on Customize Command Manager. And this allows us to completely customize our interface. We can show or hide toolbars, we can click on different shortcut bars, we can go to commands. And the Commands folder here you can see we have a Sheet Metal tab. Click on it. And these are all the tools that can be in this part of the ribbon, or I can…
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