Tag Archives: Forming Tool

Building a Stapler – Arm Bracket (Sheet Metal), by Alex Ruiz

By admin | January 23, 2010

“Earlier this morning we starting working on the Arm Bracket for the Stapler. If you missed it, You should go back and read about creating the forming tools needed for the Arm Bracket. Now that we have created the forming tools we can move on to creating our sheet metal Arm Bracket.” …
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Building a Stapler – Anvil Forming Tool, by Alex Ruiz

By admin | January 23, 2010

“Here we are at the beginning of another beautiful Friday morning and of course you know what that means…this weeks modeling tutorial. Last month when I started the stapler project, I thought it would be fun to model up the stapler sitting on my desk. I never expected it to attract the attention it [...]

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Building a Stapler – Staple Cradle Pt2, by Alex Ruiz

By admin | January 23, 2010

“Picking up where we left off on Friday, we are going to be finishing up the stapler cradle today. If you missed the first part of this tutorial, you can find it here. In the first part of this tutorial we started building the staple cradle using standard features that we will then convert to [...]

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SolidWorks Forming Tool Wizard… Why I Don’t Use It, by Anna Wood

By admin | May 27, 2009

“Ever since SolidWorks developed a new way of creating Sheet Metal Forming Tools in SolidWorks 2006 with their Form Tools Wizard I have not used it. I use the old school techniques for creating the forming tool. The number one reason I do not use the wizard is the Orientation Sketch in the form tool [...]

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