From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
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Preparing for manufacturing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal Design
Preparing for manufacturing
- [Instructor] When you're preparing to send your files out for manufacturing, it's definitely worth it to spend a few extra minutes in verifying all the parts fit together correctly and you don't have any types of interferences, and you haven't forgot anything in your design. So we have a couple different ways we can do that. And one of the first ways I go through and review a design is I actually switch over here from shaded mode over here to wire frame. Now I'll take a look at the top of this part. And I just want to look and see if I see anything that might cause an issue. So over here, notice I had that little tab and we cut this hole for it? We want to make sure we've got enough clearance between this face and this face, and it looks like we do. Come over here and make sure nothing's sticking through in the wrong way. We have this hole, you can see this line here and this line here, and this is fitting through there so it looks good. Come over here, you can see, actually, that…
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