From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
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Adding cuts in context - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
Adding cuts in context
- [Instructor] When dealing with complex sheet metal assemblies with many features or connectors, creating cuts in sheet metal can be extremely complicated. If we add these cuts in context, the features will reference the other individual components and will automatically track where they go. So if you move a connector, the hole will automatically follow along. Let me show you how to do that. So the first thing you need to do is to edit this part here in context. So if I click on it, I can right click, and come up here to edit part. Now you can see the other components have been grayed out and I'm working on this component, and let's go ahead and start a sketch on this front plane. Now what I'd like to do is spin it so I'm looking at it normal. So, like you can see here. And notice I can't see these other connections, I can only see that one. So let's switch over to a wireframe mode, so now I can see through the components. And it's a little bit clearer, but you might wanna also…
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