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Mastering SolidWorks
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Mastering SolidWorks

by Matt Lombard
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1248 pages
39h 29m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 34Using SolidWorks Sheet Metal Tools

SolidWorks contains two completely separate methods for working in sheet metal, and they both use regular SolidWorks parts (*.sldprt). In one method, you can use dedicated Sheet Metal features from the start, and in the other method, you build a part using thin features and other generic modeling tools, and then convert it to sheet metal so you can flatten it.

The reason for two methods is that the generic modeling method came first, and then SolidWorks introduced a more powerful set of dedicated Sheet Metal features. You can use these tools together or separately, and either way you get an accurately flattened part at the end. Situations where you might want to use one or the other are covered in ...

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