- [Instructor] The Rip command is a very handy tool
for taking a solid and slicing it up
and then turning it into a sheet metal part.
To get started, the first thing we need is a sketch.
So, up here on the top surface,
let's go ahead and create a sketch.
And let's go ahead and create a few different lines.
Create these lines right here and connect those together.
Alright, so there are our four lines.
So we're gonna be using these lines here
to slice this edge so we can open it up,
and then go down this edge here.
So, once we have that, I can exit out of that.
Let's go ahead and choose the Rip command right over here.
My Rip parameters, so these are gonna be my edges to rip.
I'm gonna choose that new, little edge.
And notice that you get an arrow that goes both directions.
We actually wanna only go in the inside
direction, so along this long edge here.
So, Change Direction.
Notice it goes only outside, and this way it goes
only inside, and that looks good.
And so you're gonna be adding a 10 thousandth gap.
Alright, so I'm also gonna choose this edge right here,
and I'm gonna switch the direction
so it's going along the same way.
Do that with all the different edges here,
over this corner here, so going inside here, going there.
Notice the arrows are going the correct direction.
Over here, click on that one, going
the wrong direction, so flip it.
Click this edge here, wrong direction again, so flip it.
And then come over here, one more time.
Choose this edge here and that edge there.
Alright, so now that's gonna rip all four corners.
Go ahead and click on OK, and you can see here,
it does kinda slice that material all the way down,
but we don't quite have a sheet metal part yet.
We have a part that's ready to be converted
to sheet metal, but we're not quite to that step.
So now, we wanna do the Insert Bends command.
And this very similar to convert to sheet metal,
so click on Insert Bends, right?
And then, I wanna choose this bottom surface here,
define what my bend radius is gonna be,
choose an auto-relief and click on OK.
And that is gonna go ahead and create this
into a sheet metal part and notice it did
automatically add a couple relief marks.
Now this is a pretty big bend radius,
so we might wanna go back to this
convert to sheet metal or this command here,
and these flatten bends and go ahead
and take a look at this piece here, edit that feature.
Instead of a quarter inch radius,
let's go ahead and change that to something else.
We can also override the default parameters
cause right now it's using the default.
Let's go ahead and make that .060, click OK.
And now we've got a little bit simpler part.
You can see here in the corners,
we do have some open geometry here.
We might wanna close that up using the Close Corner command,
but right now, you can see we are easily able
to slice up this part using the Rip command,
and create those joints and then convert this
over to sheet metal part using the Insert Bends command.