From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
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Using and customizing the ribbon - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
Using and customizing the ribbon
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm gonna be showing you how to customize the Sheet Metal Ribbon Bar. Now you notice when you switch over to the Sheet Metal tab, you notice we only have a couple different tools that are available. We can use the Base Flange/Tab tool or the Swept Flange, or we have the ability to create a Formed tool. So, before we can really get into using any of these Sheet Metal tools, we need to start a Sketch, and then turn that Sketch into a Sheet Metal part, and then we can start using the rest of the Sheet Metal tools. But once we have that available, we can also modify the way these tools are laid out. And we can do that by right-clicking anywhere on any of these tabs. Right-click over here, and come down here to Customize CommandManager. Click on that one, and you have this window that pops up. And right over here you have these Shortcut Bars, and you can add in and remove tools from those Shortcut Bars right over here. Notice these are the ones you see…
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