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Making an edge flange

Making an edge flange - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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

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Making an edge flange

So once you have a sheet metal part, the next logical step is to add edge flanges. To take that flat part, and add in some bends. If you already have a part with bends, don't worry. You can add more. To get started, choose a straight edge of the part. And choose the Edge Flange tool. You can choose the tool first. However, like many things in SolidWorks. If you pre-select the entities, it speeds things up a bit. And you get a nice visual representation as soon as you launch the tool. Let's choose this edge up here and go ahead and click on Edge Flange. You can see a little arrow that pops up and wherever I click it just gives us a nice representation of what's going to happen there. And you can see the bend region. Spin it around in 3D, see exactly what's going on there and take a look at some of these options. So first things first, the bend radius is determined from whenever we created that first sheet metal feature. In this case here, we've got an 029 radius. As far as the angle, I…

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