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Using forming tools

Using forming tools - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using forming tools

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- [Instructor] Forming tools allow us to add in custom form shapes into sheet metal. We can add in ribs, louvers, card guides, embosses, debosses, and the list keeps going. Generally forming tools are custom. However, quite a few standard shapes are available at most manufacturers. Now SolidWorks has some off-the-shelf louvers and ribs and things like that we can automatically add, that are pre-loaded into the Design Library. And those are available right over here on the Library. If you want to bring this out, you can click on the little push pin, it will stay out. And down here you can see there's a folder called Forming tools. Inside of there is embosses, extruded flanges, lances, louvers, and ribs. So we have a whole bunch of pre-made ones that we can use in our designs. And we can also create our own custom ones as well. But for right now let's go ahead and click on embosses. And let's go ahead and just drag out a circular emboss. There it is. I can flip the tool so it's going…

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