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

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Creating tabs

Creating tabs - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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

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Creating tabs

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To create a tab, you need to have an existing sheet metal part. Lucky thing for us, we've got one open. We open at 2.3, and that should be under the Exercise files. If not, it should be an easy part to create. The Tab tool operates the same as the Base tool. However, we need to tie it into an existing flat face of a part to create a tab. To get started, let's choose a face to add on to. We can choose any of the faces we'd like, this one, that one, this one, I can flip the part over, choose any of these faces as well. But in this case here, let's just go ahead and choose this big face here. And I'm going to come up here to the pop-up window and choose this very second icon on the bottom row called Sketch, and I'm going to click on the space bar to bring up the Orientation window and click on this Normal to. That allows me to look straight down on my part and see exactly what I'm going to be creating on that flat face. I'm going to start with the Line command and choose this upper…

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