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Modifying a forming tool

Modifying a forming tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Modifying a forming tool

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- [Instructor] In this video I'm going to be showing you how to modify a forming tool. Now in the last video we did take a look at how to add forming tools to our parts, so I want to review that real quick. So over here, under the design library here, you see the design lib where you have forming tools, and we have a couple different things here. We have lances, we have extruded flanges. So I'm gonna use this rectangular flange right here. I'm just gonna drag that into my part, and that looks a little bit too small for me. But I'm just go ahead and add it anyways. Now what I wanna do is actually modify that. So I'm gonna go back over here, click on that rectangular flange, and click on open. So I right-clicked on the flange and now I have it opened up. Now I can go ahead and just roll the history bar back so I'm starting with the very first feature. I'm gonna click on that sketch and take a look at it. You can see here it's 50 by five, let's go ahead and make that 100, so I'm making…

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