{"id":10134,"date":"2016-01-06T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=10134"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:28:40","slug":"solidworks-part-reviewer-sheet-metal-tetrapod-leg-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/01\/solidworks-part-reviewer-sheet-metal-tetrapod-leg-tutorial.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Sheet Metal Tetrapod Leg Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Tetrapod-Reg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10135\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Tetrapod-Reg.jpg\" alt=\"Tetrapod-Reg\" width=\"397\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Tetrapod-Reg.jpg 705w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Tetrapod-Reg-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Tetrapod-Reg-615x476.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a>Sheet Metal Tetrapod Leg:\u00a0<\/strong>The leg is revolved coincident to the origin. The 3D sketch calculates the required angle to revolve the legs and calculate the intersection between the bodies. The remaining legs do not need to be patterned at the odd angle calculated by 3D Layout Sketch\u00a0 &#8211; the pattern for these uses the 120\u00b0 we originally expect for all of the patterned legs. The Thicken Command ensures that all edges are 90\u00b0 to the main conical face to ensure that it&#8217;s a proper sheet metal part.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/SheetMetal-Tetrapod-Leg.SLDPRT.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheet Metal Tetrapod Leg<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\">Complexity: <\/strong>Moderate<br \/>\n<strong>Features:\u00a0<\/strong>Leg Revolve, Body Delete, Surface Offset, Move Face, Mirror Plane<\/p>\n<p>Learn more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2013\/07\/about-the-solidworks-part-reviewer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer<\/a> or view all the Part Reviewer Tutorials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/parts\/supplier\/SOLIDWORKS-Part-Reviewer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>DraftSight Download:\u00a0<\/b>In conjunction with DraftSight, Dassault Syst\u00e8mes&#8217; 2D CAD product, the 2D drawing(.dwg) file of the Sheet Metal Tetrapod Leg\u00a0tutorial\u00a0is now available for download\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/SheetMetal-Tetrapod-Leg.DWG_.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheet Metal Tetrapod Leg:\u00a0The leg is revolved coincident to the origin. The 3D sketch calculates the required angle to revolve the legs and calculate the intersection between the bodies. The remaining legs do not need to be patterned at the<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/01\/solidworks-part-reviewer-sheet-metal-tetrapod-leg-tutorial.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":10138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,35],"tags":[212,42,333,254,60,414],"class_list":["post-10134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-part-reviewer-tutorials","category-tips-tricks","tag-moderate","tag-part-reviewer","tag-prp","tag-sheetmetal","tag-tech-tip","tag-tutorial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10134\/revisions\/29840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}