- [Narrator] In this video, I'm gonna be teaching you
how to create your own custom forming tool,
for using with sheet metal,
so the first thing I need is a sketch,
which I already have right here,
I'm gonna go ahead and extrude that sketch up,
I wanna make sure that I'm extruding it
outside of the space materials,
so I wanna switch the direction,
and I'm gonna type in point one five inches
for the amount of the emboss that I'd like to make,
click on okay, now let's go ahead,
and use the Fillet command,
and let's give a point two five fillet,
and let's go ahead and choose these inside corners here,
we wanna make sure we've got nice smooth edges
on the corners of our emboss,
so you have a nice smooth emboss at the end of the day,
we don't wanna crinkle that material,
so we wanna make sure we're using big nice fillets
around our part.
How about another fillet here,
this time I'm gonna type in point one,
I'm gonna use that on the inside bottom edge,
and then do the same thing again on that top edge,
alright, now what we need to do is remove the material
from the base right over here,
now I created that base right over here with this sketch,
and I can reuse that sketch,
let's go ahead and do an extrude cut,
and remove that material I'll say up to next,
click okay, and now we have the tool that we need,
but we need to save it out as a tool first,
or a forming tool, so click on Sheet Metal,
come over here to Forming Tool,
and choose a Stopping Face,
now the Stopping Face is gonna be how far we're
gonna push this into the part,
so I wanna use the Back Face here as my Stopping Face,
and I don't wanna remove any Faces,
if you wanna remove a Face, it'd be more like a cutting tool
that would cut into the part and remove a center section
or something like that, but if you just wanna emboss it,
leave this blank, same thing with Insertion point,
right now it's in the center of the part,
and that works just fine, so let's just keep it as is,
click okay, and now we've got our forming tool,
but we need to add this to the design library
before we can use it, so go ahead and save this
to your file system first, so click on file, save as,
let me go ahead and just put it
on the desktop for right now, six point three tool, save,
alright, now let's go ahead and add it to the library,
so go over here to the library,
click on this little plus up here, it says Add to Library,
and we wanna put this in the embosses which is great,
and here's my forming tool, so I wanna choose this
as my feature which is this part that we saved out,
and the final name's gonna be Cross
or whatever you'd like it to be, click on okay,
and now we've added it to the library.
Now, let's go see if we can use it,
so click over here to the six point three part,
which is just a basic sheet metal piece,
and let's go see if we can add that new tool to the library,
so here it is, the cross we just added,
just go ahead and drag that in, drop it in,
can arrange it however you like,
click on okay, and bam, we've got our own custom emboss
created quickly in solid works,
and then quickly added to our part,
or any other parts we happen to be working with
inside a solid works sheet metal.