- [Instructor] In this video I'm going to be showing you
how to modify a forming tool.
Now in the last video we did take a look at
how to add forming tools to our parts,
so I want to review that real quick.
So over here, under the design library here,
you see the design lib where you have forming tools,
and we have a couple different things here.
We have lances, we have extruded flanges.
So I'm gonna use this rectangular flange right here.
I'm just gonna drag that into my part,
and that looks a little bit too small for me.
But I'm just go ahead and add it anyways.
Now what I wanna do is actually modify that.
So I'm gonna go back over here,
click on that rectangular flange, and click on open.
So I right-clicked on the flange
and now I have it opened up.
Now I can go ahead and just roll the history bar back
so I'm starting with the very first feature.
I'm gonna click on that sketch and take a look at it.
You can see here it's 50 by five, let's go ahead
and make that 100, so I'm making it twice as wide.
Alright, and let's roll that forward a little bit more.
And this case here, let's look at that sketch.
And instead of 20, let's make that twice as wide as well.
I'll make that 40.
Alright let's roll it forward a little bit more.
That fillet looks good.
This fillet looks good.
And then I'm gonna remove that material.
So I just made this feature that much bigger.
Alright, and then here's my orientation sketch
which is gonna stay the same.
So now I wanna go file save as,
and it's saving already in the forming tool
extruded flanges folder.
I'm gonna say extruded flange two.
Save that out.
Save the older file version.
And then I wanna go back to my original part
which is right over here.
Click on that design library.
Notice it shows up right here.
I can just drag and drop that into my part.
Click on okay and just that easily
I was able to modify an existing flange.
Make it a little bit bigger, drop it back into my part.
And you can see it's pretty straightforward and easy.
Now if you try to use that new flange I created,
it might not be in your file system,
because that is saved in my forming tools directory.
It's probably not saved in yours.
But you do need to open up initial file,
make those modifications,
then you'll have it saved in your own directory.
So keep that in mind if you're trying to use
the existing flange that I just created.
But more than likely Solidworks does have preloaded
a lot of these individual forming tools
just like they have it on my system here.