Chapter 8: Joining Multi-Sheet Parts Using Tab and Slot Features
The Tab and Slot tool can be used to simplify the joining of two sheet metal bodies by creating Tab and Slot features on each respectively.
By the end of this chapter, you'll understand how to use the basic tool, as well as its many sub-options.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Adding Tab and Slot features
- Adjusting Tab and Slot properties
Adding Tab and Slot features
So far in this book, we have only created Sheet Metal parts that contain one single sheet. However, it is also possible to make parts that have multiple sheets.
In SolidWorks Sheet Metal, sheets can be thought of in a similar way to bodies in normal solid modeling. They are separate ...
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