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Create a feature to be reused

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Create a feature to be reused

- [Instructor] Okay, so I've opened my sheet metal part and I'm ready to create my sketch. So I'm going to start by adding some equations. I've got a thickness equation. I'm going to add some more. So I'm going to add variable A and I'm going to start with the E size for the shell and I'm going to say 20.8, okay. And then I'm going to say the B size which is going to be 20. And I'm going to say okay. And this part could also have different configurations to it, but we're just going to do the E size for now. The 28.8 and the 20. So I'm going to come over and I'm going to start my sketch. And I'm going Normal to and I'm just going to start by creating center rectangle and then I'm going to add corner rectangle here and there's some symmetry there so once I've got this setup, I can mirror it over. I'm going to trim out a little bit. I don't really care about those and I'm going to have a center line from here over to there and I'm going to set that to be horizontal. Okay, and let's start…

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