From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
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Making a swept flange - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
Making a swept flange
Swept flanges are fairly new to SolidWorks and provide a handy tool for complex compound bends. Be careful with this tool. Just because you can create it in a computer does not mean you can create it in real life. Many times, you'll need to buy expensive tooling and deal with manufacturing issues. My best recommendation would be to do a preliminary design and then start talking with a manufacturer about the feasibility of that design. That being said let's make a Swept flange. To get started with, let's go ahead and open 2.7, Start File. And in this case here, what I want to do is I want to create a flange that's going to start on this edge here and go around the outside of the perimeter of this part and end over here. So, one of the primary things we need to choose when we're starting with a swept flange is we need to choose and draw a sketch on a coincident edge. so in this case here, because I want to draw on this edge or actually want to extrude along that edge. I want to start…
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