SOLIDWORKS Tutorial - 'Advanced' Sheet Metal

The word "Advanced" can have so many meanings based on ones perspective. Someone who has never used SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal may find the simple and awesome ability to Flatten bends amazing while a seasoned user is looking for Advanced Setup or Libraries or SWOOPY shapes.
This presentation has a little bit of ALL of this and more!
One thing I'm pretty sure of.....NO MATTER how much you think you know about Sheet Metal in SOLIDWORKS, everyone will learn something here!
Presenter: Darin Grosser, Sr. Application Engineer at GoEngineer
00:57 What is Sheet Metal
2:42 Bend Calculations
12:23 Forming Tools/Design Library
22:58 Converting to Sheet Metal
33:12 Lofted Bends
39:36 Flattening (not a Sheet Metal feature)
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[@rickpickle818]

Well done! Sheet Metal Table explained perfectly.

[@ChrisMaveric]

Excellent training video! Thankyou

[@alex_kalam]

extremely useful!

[@yaseenansari1463]

Good Explanation Sir
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[@ibrahimhakk177]

Thank you so much!

[@vigneshwarangenius3631]

Nice & I really love it ...!
Seeking for more on application oriented Programs...!

[@jameshagerman]

So if I make a custom form tool in SolidWorks, it ends up being the male half of the die. What's the best way to create the female half of the die so I can CNC cut both and use them in my press?
Is is really as easy as offsetting the surface by the intended thickness of the stock and building the female die out of that offset surface?

[@goengineer]

It could be that easy, the specific geometry is really going to control what methods are useful or not.
The forming tools is meant as a way to create easy and repeatable shapes not necessarily as a proxy for actual stamping tools. So things like stretch or shrink may not be accounted for in the actual tool body.

[@user-lo2ys5ix1l]

If we want to punch a shape from a rectangular sheet so that it has the least deviation what is the solution ???

[@goengineer]

That kind of answer is going to be very material dependent. Simulation tools will probably be required to get the best results. Your VARS AE team may be able to help you find the right set up in Solidworks to evaluate different options

[@nathancoy8066]

Nope. Pretty much used all of that before. (admittedly I skimmed the video, sure there was something in there for me)

[@EricSolvesky]

I can imagine you at a seminar, running up onto the stage and grabbing the microphone from the instructor so that you can tell everyone that you already know this stuff. Also you said, "Pretty much," which implies that there were things that you didn't know or hadn't used. Probably just like everyone else that watched this video. Except you felt the need to let everyone know. Screams low self-esteem. Do yourself a favor and delete your embarrassingly transparent comment.