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Making a swept flange

Making a swept flange - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making a swept flange

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- [Instructor] The swept flange tool allows you to create very complicated compound bends inside of the sheet metal package. But be careful using this tool because a lot of times the parts you'll create using this tool will be very difficult to manufacture and then you have to use some type of stamping or some custom tooling or hydroform part to actually produce the parts. It generally won't be created using traditional press brakes to create this type of part. So to get started, let's go ahead and choose an edge. So what I'd like to do is choose an adjacent edge to the edge I'm gonna be creating the flange on. So over here, I wanna make this flange go down this edge here and around my part. So what I want to do is, I wanna draw on this surface here or that flat face. So go ahead and highlight the face, click on Sketch and start a sketch. Now let's go ahead and draw a line going up. I'm gonna come over and then I'm gonna come out like a little bit of a 45 degree. We can define that a…

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