- [Instructor] In this exercise,
we're going to be creating a sheet metal bracket.
We have a start part.
We need you to open up that start part
from the reference documentation that you pulled down
and that file is SM_Bracket.
First thing I want you to do
is of into File, Save As, once you have it open,
and save that bracket out.
Just go ahead and give it an initial at the end it.
Now that I have my bracket saved,
I'm going to go ahead and create my initial slab surfaces.
So, that said, I want to make sure
that the operations geometrical set
is my active or in work object set,
so as I begin creating my surfaces,
they go directly into that geometrically set.
I'm going to create my extrude.
I'm going to double click on it
because I'm going to use it a couple of times.
I'm going to select my first sketch
and drag this out.
Make it fairly large.
We're making what's called slab surfaces or block surfaces.
We want to make these bigger than the actual part
'cause we're going to come back and split things away
and shape fillet things away,
so we just want to make sure
we have material there to get the job done.
So, there's my first extrusion.
There's my next extrusion and the same thing for this.
I'll select OK and cancel out.
Now, here I'm just going to go into my extrudes
and rename them.
These are my initial slabs.
I want to be able to bring these back
and reference them in the future
if something happens to change,
so I'm going to right mouse click over the Extrude 1,
go into Properties,
I can change the color for differentiation,
and feature names,
I'm going to give it a name.
I'll do the same thing with Extrude 2.
Now that I have my slabs,
I'm going to go ahead and hide this input geometrical set.
I no longer need to see these sketches.
Right mouse click and just say Hide/Show.
With that, I'm going to put some fillets on
this bottom main slab.
Now, the type of fillet I need to use
is edge fillet and again, this works
just the way it does in the part design workbench.
So, I'll double click on edge fillet,
I'm going to put a fillet in this bottom edge
and for that we'll put in 13, select OK,
we'll put a fillet in on this top edge
and for that we'll put in 10, OK
and next we need to put a fillet in
between this Slab 2 and this Edge Fillet 2.
As you can see in the tree,
Slab 1 is now hidden.
It's being used to generate this Edge fillet 1
and then Edge Fillet 1 is now hidden
because it's being used to generate Edge Fillet 2.
So, when I come in and create my shape fillet,
I'm going to select that surface,
select this surface,
I want to make sure I point the arrows
to what's going to be the center of the radius
which is going to be reversing this arrow,
just simply select on it,
enter in my value, say 13,
and select OK.
So, there is my initial slab body.
Now, I'm going to go into this fillet,
I'm going to right mouse click on it,
go into properties
and I'm going to change it.
And again, change the color
and select OK.
Now that we have our main body,
go ahead and hit either control S on the keyboard,
File, Save to save your work.