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The business card holder below was created as an example to illustrate the benefits of the Tab & Slotfeature. An additional goal of the design was to create a finished product cheap enough to be used as giveaway items for marketing events.
TheTab & Slotfeature creates interlocking tabs for self-fixturing assembly design, which is particularly useful for sheet metal parts and assemblies. It can also be used for other solid bodies, as is the case in this simple woodworking example. For more details on how the feature works, check out our existing blog: What’s New SOLIDWORKS 2018: Tab and Slot Feature
Once I was confident in the 3D design, it was time to get it into a 2D format for the laser cutter. I exported the individual bodies as DXF format and brought them into DraftSight (the free 2D CAD tool) for final preparations. I matched the parts against the vendor’s cutting template, and assigned entities to proper layers for cutting vs etching.
Below you can see the finished parts cut from 1/8” Birch plywood. I used a popular online vendor for hobbyist laser cutting, and the cost worked out to $2 per business card holder- right down there with some of the cheapest promo items! Thanks to the digital nature of the manufacturing process, each business card holder could potentially be engraved with individualized names for virtually no added cost.
It’s worth noting that I was only intending to use the tabs for alignment, as the clearance value of approximately .002” resulted in a somewhat loose fit. To secure the parts I applied small dots of cyanoacrylate (engineer speak for superglue) on each tab prior to final assembly. I was quite happy with the end result!
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Pairs of tabs and slots are widely used in self-locating and self-fixturing designs such as food processing machines and furniture. Up to now, it has been time consuming and repetitive to manually create multiple pairs of tabs and slots, as well as to maintain the relationships between them. SOLIDWORKS 2018 adds a way to automatically create associative pairs.
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- Tab and Slot Feature – a Perfect Fit to Get Your Designs Built SOLIDWORKS 2018 lets users automate the creation of tab and slot features used for self-fixturing of parts for welding. Other sheet metal enhancements include the new Normal Cut feature which ensures proper clearances are maintained for manufacturing, and the new Bend capability allowing users to create and flatten three-corner bends.
- In 2018, Solidworks added a “tab and slot” feature in the sheet metal menu. This allows the user to drastically speed up the process for the designer to add these features. Undoubtedly, this will lead to the proliferation of potential stress concentrations.
- Where to find the Tab and Slot command in SOLIDWORKS 2018. As we can see in Figure 2 the Tab and Slot command is found in the pulldown menu INSERTSHEET METALTAB AND SLOT. This is a little misleading because this great new command is not limited to sheet metal parts and can be used in any part type.