From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications

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Exporting sheet metal geometry in SOLIDWORKS

Exporting sheet metal geometry in SOLIDWORKS - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications

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Exporting sheet metal geometry in SOLIDWORKS

- [Narrator] When exporting geometry related to sheet metal parts in SolidWorks, we have to take some extra care as the steps we take to do this. Now typically, we won't be sending out any 3-D geometry. Sheet metal work is typically done in a 2-D way, meaning that we cut things using laser, water jet, or other CNC cutters and the flat pattern, and then we bend it up, do some stamping operations, or something along those lines to create a part similar to what you see in front of you. So here I've downloaded a chassis part of of GrabCAD, which you can go search for and download yourself. I've edited it a little bit to make it a little bit simpler, but as you can see it's got edge flanges, cutouts, bends, relief, all the common sheet metal features that you'd find in a part. So let's see what we'd have to do to save this as a DWG or DXF to output to a vendor. I'm going to go up to my dropdown and select save as. Now for this particular example, I'm not going to select DWG. There's…

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