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    Lynda - Solidworks Sheet Metal Design

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    The document discusses various sheet metal creation tools in SolidWorks. It describes how the base flange tab feature can create three types of flanges based on input geometry, including an enclosed boundary or open profile. It also discusses tools for creating tabs, edge flanges with automatic mitering at corners, editing flange profiles, using the powerful miter flange tool to create complicated shapes quickly, and making swept flanges which can form complex compound bends but may be difficult to manufacture.

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    Lynda - Solidworks Sheet Metal Design

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    The document discusses various sheet metal creation tools in SolidWorks. It describes how the base flange tab feature can create three types of flanges based on input geometry, including an enclosed boundary or open profile. It also discusses tools for creating tabs, edge flanges with automatic mitering at corners, editing flange profiles, using the powerful miter flange tool to create complicated shapes quickly, and making swept flanges which can form complex compound bends but may be difficult to manufacture.

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    The document discusses various sheet metal creation tools in SolidWorks. It describes how the base flange tab feature can create three types of flanges based on input geometry, including an enclosed boundary or open profile. It also discusses tools for creating tabs, edge flanges with automatic mitering at corners, editing flange profiles, using the powerful miter flange tool to create complicated shapes quickly, and making swept flanges which can form complex compound bends but may be difficult to manufacture.

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    Lynda - Solidworks Sheet Metal Design

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    The document discusses various sheet metal creation tools in SolidWorks. It describes how the base flange tab feature can create three types of flanges based on input geometry, including an enclosed boundary or open profile. It also discusses tools for creating tabs, edge flanges with automatic mitering at corners, editing flange profiles, using the powerful miter flange tool to create complicated shapes quickly, and making swept flanges which can form complex compound bends but may be difficult to manufacture.

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    2- Creating a base feature

    The base flange tab feature is the primary sheet metal creation tool. This same tool can create
    three types of flanges, based upon the input geometry provided. The most basic is an enclosed
    boundary.

    Looking at the Flange tool


    it's exactly the same icon we used last time, which is the base flange tab icon, but instead of
    using your base, which is an enclosed boundary, we're gonna use a flange, which is an open
    profile.

    Creating tabs
    The tab command extends an existing sheet metal part

    Making an edge flange


    we can offset that flange all the way out. You also have the ability to go back up here to the
    edge flange parameters, and choose another edge. Now, watch what happens when I do that. It
    automatically creates an entire new bend with the same offset, and it creates this miter at the
    corner, which does a whole lot of work.

    So you do need to start with a base, a flange or a tab so you have something to add that flange
    to.
    Using the Edit Flange Profile tool

    Flange profile can be edited and modified.

    Using the Miter Flange tool


    There's no more impressive or powerful tool in the sheet metal tools library than the Miter
    Flange. The Miter Flange can create very complicated sheet metal shapes in a snap and correct
    use of the feature can really save you a lot of time.
    Making a swept flange
    The swept flange tool allows you to create very complicated compound bends inside of the
    sheet metal package. But be careful using this tool because a lot of times the parts you'll create
    using this tool will be very difficult to manufacture and then you have to use some type of
    stamping or some custom tooling or hydroform part to actually produce the parts.

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