From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Using block cutouts

Using block cutouts - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Using block cutouts

If we end up using a connector in several places in a design or across several products, it makes a lot of sense to create a block out of the sketch so we can easily drop that cutout into multiple designs. Also, many manufacturers will also provide a DWG or DXF file of the cutoff so we can bring that into our design and just place it. If we already have a design with a cutoff which I have over here, I'm going to spin this around, you can see that I've got a sketch inside of this part here. So let's go ahead and find out where that actually is. So you can always find out where these things are, if you click on the like the inside face. It'll highlight where the part is and which part you're talking about. So let's click on the part itself and let's say Edit Part. And then click on the featured self and it should highlight over here as cut feature two or cut extrude two and go ahead and click on the sketch and say edit sketch. Now you can see here's all the sketch I have and how we…

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