Sheet metal
Building a SOLIDWORKS sheet metal part from a base flange: thickness and bend data, edge flanges and sketched bends, the flat pattern and a DXF export for the shop. I'd start a new bracket with sheet metal features rather than converting a solid.
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Sheet metal
SOLIDWORKS sheet metal basics: flanges, bends and flattening
A rectangular-base channel workflow, with inherited bend settings, edge-flange measurement choices, the sketched-bend alternative and a complete flat-pattern DXF check.
