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Modifying a forming tool

Modifying a forming tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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

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Modifying a forming tool

Forming tools can be opened, adjusted, and modified to your liking. All we need to do is open the Library feature and make some modifications. Over here in the library, I see I have a rectangular flange. This is a base feature that's installed with SolidWorks. If I drag this over to my part, you can see that makes a cut, and click OK. It cuts a little flange, however, it's too small. So, I'd like to adjust that feature to be a bigger part. No problem. Let's click on it, right-click. Click on Open, and I conceive of a shape. Now, this shape is created using multiple features. So, the first feature here, if I roll it back with the history bar, is a base material. Let's look at the sketch, and extrude it out. So, we're (INAUDIBLE) make sure, we're going to extrude it a little bit longer. I'd say 70 millimeters, looks okay. Come down to the next feature here, and this one I'm going to, instead of 30, let's go ahead and make it 60, make it twice the size. And go into the sketch below that,…

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