Working from Drawings: A Challenge

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Pnakovich

is this metric or english?

If it has decimal points in the numbers, then in my experience 90% of the time it's English (or imperial) but that's a good question none the less.

That said, the sheet-metal feature in Solidworks is kinda irritating when you first learn it, (my bends always ended up going in the opposite direction at first) but things like this can be cranked out in no time with some practice. It's actually really cool, the K factor determines what your true radius willl be depending on your final desired angle of the material and the material type.

Good stuff, although to cheat (not that I would ever do that in Solidworks ) I would just extrude the profile and call it a day.. lol