From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design

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Looking at the sheet metal tools

Looking at the sheet metal tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Looking at the sheet metal tools

- [Instructor] To get started with SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal, the first thing we need to do is to add in the sheet metal tools. So to get started, let's go ahead and head up here to the blank sheet of paper at the top and start a brand new document. And you can go ahead and choose the basic Part here if you're using the Novice Toolbar or switch over to the Advanced Toolbar and choose one of the basic templates you already have loaded. And you can also add in additional tabs at the top here if you wanna add the templates from the provided Exercise Files. But, in this case, let's go ahead and switch back to Novice, choose Part, and click on OK. Alright, once we're in the SOLIDWORKS environment, notice up here we have the ribbon bar and we have the individual tabs with the different tools there, and we don't see sheet metal. So to get to the sheet metal tools, right click on any one of those tabs, come down here to Sheet Metal, and make sure you turn that on which will add the Sheet Metal…

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