From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
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Building a chassis - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
Building a chassis
- [Narrator] In this movie, I wanna show you how we can create a multi-body sheet metal part that will automatically update when we change the individual components, so first things first, let's just take a look at what we have here, this is basically a rack mount server, and we have multiple bodies here, you can take a look at, so under the Cut list you can see the individual parts, so here's the bottom and here's the top, here's the back, the left side, the right side, and of course, the front, so those are the individual parts we're gonna be creating all in this one multi-body sheet metal part, so I'm gonna go ahead and roll back the history bar here, all up to the top, nothing there, and take a look at our very first Flange, inside of there is just gonna be a basic rectangle, with a size of the chassis, alright, so there's our very first part, I'm gonna make a linear pattern here, I'm actually gonna take that same part, and just push it right up above where it currently is, and…
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