Practice exercise

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This is a practice exercise video solution.

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For this practice, we’ll get started with a new untitled document and navigate to our sheet metal tools and begin by creating a new sketch.

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We’re going to create the sketch on the XY plane.

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And we'll start with a center point rectangle.

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The center point rectangle will be approximately 150 mm by 150 mm.

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Once we have this, we’ll finish the sketch and we'll begin by creating a sheet metal flange.

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When we select the profile, it'll default to grabbing the steel millimeters sheet metal rule.

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We'll say OK creating a new component and select OK.

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Now we have a sheet metal component, let's go ahead and activate it and begin adding something to the design.

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From here, we're going to select flange again, but this time we're going to select one of the edges and begin pulling it up.

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We want to go a distance of 50 mm, but we don't want to go all the way to the corner.

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To modify this, we change from full edge and we’ll select symmetric.

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We're going to drag this in until the distance is set to 60 mm.

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We also want to modify the bend position.

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We're going to make it adjacent and we'll say OK.

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Using our right click marking menu, we're gonna repeat the flange.

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Once again, pulling it up 50 mm, modifying it to be symmetric and dragging it until we have 60 mm.

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Note that it is remembering the adjacent option and we can say, OK.

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Using our right click marking menu, we're going to repeat this again.

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Once again pulling up a distance of 50 mm, modifying the edge to be symmetric and dragging this in until we're down to 60 mm.

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Repeat this one last time on the far edge.

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Once again, changing to symmetric and grabbing one of the arrowheads, making sure we go down to 60 mm.

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At this point, we have a bent sheet metal part.

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Let's navigate back to a home view.

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We'll go to Create and select Create Flat Pattern.

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Select the large square face and say, OK.

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This gives us a flat pattern of the sheet metal design.

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This can be exported as a DXF or sent to a detailed drawing.

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From here let's finish the flat pattern and let's make sure that we do save our design.

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And we'll simply call it Sheet Metal Practice.