- [Narrator] In this movie, we're gonna be using
the sheet metal flange tool.
So it's exactly the same icon we used last time,
which is the base flange tab icon right up here,
but instead of using your base,
which is an enclosed boundary,
we're gonna use a flange, which is an open profile.
So to get started we need to create a sketch
just like we do normally.
So we can choose either the tool first,
or we can choose one of the basic planes.
In this case I'm gonna use the top plane
and just right click over here and say sketch
and it'll start a sketch on that plane.
Alright, now what we want to do
is again we want to tie into the origin
and then define a shape.
So let's get started with a line tool.
I'm gonna start right at the origin
and go over to the right here
and I'm gonna make just a simple L-shape.
So instead of creating an enclosed boundary,
notice we just have a couple of different lines.
Now, of course we can define this
with dimensions if we need to,
but right now let's just go ahead
and create that sheet metal flange.
So go over here to sheet metal,
click on that base flange tab tool.
Because it's an open profile,
it's gonna be creating a flange.
I can drag that up so you can see what's gonna happen here.
I can define the bin radius.
I can define the thickness.
So right over here thickness,
let's use a quarter inch again.
Instead of an 0.029 bin radius,
notice we want to be at least one time material thickness,
so let's make it .25 again
and that'll be a quarter inch.
Notice it changes the preview.
K-factor again, we don't really know the k-factor,
so let's go ahead and use the .5
and just leave it as K-factor,
but if you use the bend deduction
just like we talked about earlier,
you can get a very accurate value,
or if you know the exact K-factor you can,
but leaving it at .5 will always work, so keep that in mind.
Same thing with Direction 1.
Define how far you want to draw
that piece of sheet metal out.
I'm gonna type two inches
and then go ahead and click on OK.
So here's our very first sheet metal flange.
You can see it's pretty straight forward and simple,
but now let's jump back into that tool
and make it a little more complicated.
So first things first, let's go back over here
to the feature itself,
click on the little fly down arrow,
or the twirl down arrow
and notice here's our sketch
and then here is our feature.
So they highlight those features.
Go back to the sketch itself and click on edit sketch.
Alright so there's our original sketch.
I'm gonna go ahead and hit the space bar
and that's gonna spin it around normal too,
because it didn't modify that keyboard shortcut,
or if you get the view cube
you can just choose the front face or normal tool
and then get the exact same thing.
Alright, now let's go ahead
and make this a little bit more complicated.
Let's go back to the line command,
let's add a line going this direction,
how bout going this direction,
how bout over here,
how bout down here.
No matter what you want
you can have as many lines as you want
all in this one sketch.
Guess what happens when you exit out of that sketch.
Bam, all that happens at one time,
because you already have that sheet metal feature,
all those lines automatically get created
into this one sheet metal flange.
So you can make very complicated sheet metal parts
all starting from one very simple open sketch,
add a few dimensions, tie it into the origin
and it's a really great way to start
with any type of sheet metal part in a pre-formed state
just like you see here
and then you can add the additional flanges after that.
So that's the basics on how to use
the sheet metal base flange tab tool
in the flange condition which uses an open profile.