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

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Creating a custom forming tool

Creating a custom forming tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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

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Creating a custom forming tool

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Forming tools can be design from the ground up in solid works. And this video will cover the basics. To get started, let's take a look at this part. What I have here on the screen is a piece of sheet metal, or just basically a boss extrude. And I've got a sketch laid out on the top surface. If I edit the sketch I can see what kind of geometry I have here, and you can see all different shapes. I'm not going to go through how to create the sketch. You should be able to make the sketch on your own. I just want to cover some of the basic sketch entities that are here. Take a look at them, but you should be able to create the sketch on your own. Exit out of that. Take a look at the surface it's on, which this bottom surface here. And let's go ahead and create a boss extrude using that sketch. So I'll choose that sketch, and make sure we're going to be going in the correct direction. So flip that and we want to go to 0.15. Click on OK and there's our first feature. Now because we're going…

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