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Model Sheet Metal Tray With Rendering | FreeCAD Tutorial | Mechnexus |
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Jul 2, 2025
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Welcome To freead tutorial and in this
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tutorial we will learn how to model this
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tray in freead with the help of a sheet
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met workbench and we will use Dynamic
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data addon to control the dimension of
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our
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tray you can also visit my website Mech
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description so I will close this file
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and I will create a new
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file and here I have uh installed the
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dynamic data add-on and if you have not
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installed it
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then simply go to the tool then add on
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manager and search for the dynamic data
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and install it so I have already
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installed it so first I
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will create an object here and here on
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the object tab I will add a property so
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here the
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property window will pop up so here if
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you see on Dynamic data addon we can
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create values for length acceleration
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angle Direction distance so many things
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here we can create but as we are
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modeling a simple sheet metal tray so we
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need only length
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Dimension so here if you see here name
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DD
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means DD stand for the dynamic data and
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here on the length you can assign any
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value here so for example here on the
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length I will give here my tray length I
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will keep everything
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small tray
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length and uh tray length I will give
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100 for Tim
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being so you can see that here tray
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length has been added I will add one
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more property here I will say tray
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width
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tray width and my tray width will be
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50 I will say okay so you can see here
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the two properties has been added length
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and
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width now uh we will uh
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create our part so for this we will
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switch to the part design workbench and
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insert a body first and then we will
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click on the
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sketch and from here I will switch to
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the
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isometric now we will uh draw our base
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plate base sketch on a top plane so
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first I will create a rectangle because
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it is a very simple tray of a rectangle
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shape now I will use the symmetricity
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constraint and I will select these two
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points and the center
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points I will give the vertical
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Dimension
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100 and horizontal
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150
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now we will click on our Dimension 100
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and click on the intern
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expression so here first type
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DD Dot and type tray so you will
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automatically get here TR length it is a
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doesn't matter whether you give your
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value in a small or capital
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letter so I will select my tray length
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and I will say okay so you can see here
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in a transparent you can see 100 mm and
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then I will say okay so you can see that
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once you link the dimension its color is
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Chang you can see that 50 Dimension is
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in yellow color and it is in a different
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color because it has the link values so
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that is the difference now simply we
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will click on our 50 mm Dimension and uh
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go to the enter and expression and same
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way way we will type here DD
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dot tray width and I will say okay so
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you can see here 50 mm has been pick up
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okay
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so this is how we have link our length
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and width now we
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will
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close and now we will switch to the
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sheet metal
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workbench I have already install the
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sheet metal workbench if you have not
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installed it then simply go to the tool
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and addon manager install
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it now select on the sketch and uh click
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on the base
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wall so you can see that uh our base
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feature has been
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created to see its property just uh
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click on it you will uh see the property
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here so length is 100 radius is 1 mm and
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thickness is 1
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mm if you want to change then you can
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change it but uh I would like to keep it
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same
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value
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now we will uh create the four flange so
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for this I will select the all four
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corners
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and uh click on the make
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wall so now you can see that uh flange
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has been created but it is in a opposite
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direction so for this click on your
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flange
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and you will find here one property
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called
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invert
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so here you will see the invert which is
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false just make it
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through so that your
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flange direction will be get
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reversed
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now I
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will make two flange here so I will
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select this hede and
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uh this hede
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and I will simply click on the
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flange so you can see that a flange has
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been created but I want in a opposite
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direction so I will click on my
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Bend and go for invert and I will say it
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true
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okay now here you can also either keep
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material inside or outside so once you
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click on the bent you will get here
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option of a Bend type if I click on the
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material
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inside so that uh flange will go to the
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inside now simply I will do on the other
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side so I will select this
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hge and
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uh this hge and click on the
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flange and same way we will reverse the
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directions
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by clicking on
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invert
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true and material we will keep
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Insight
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okay
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now we will go to our first flange and
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uh we will milter it so for this Auto
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mil
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set it false and give the milter
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angle milter angle to the 10° let's
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see 10
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and
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so you can see that uh a 10° has been
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created here but I wanted to make on
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other side as well so here I will give
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the
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10
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okay so you can see that for our both
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the flanges milter has been
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created now we will activate our second
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flange and we will do the same thing
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here so set auto milter
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false false and give the angle
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10° 10 and milter angle two also
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10 okay now I will show you an isometri
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so you can see that both the
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side angle has been
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created at this side as well
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now this is a very simple tray of uh
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100x 50 now let's move to the dynamic
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data addon and here I will make it uh
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200
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100 let's
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see so you can see that once I make the
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200 my tray length has has been
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increased now if I go to the width and
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width I also give the
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200 so you can see that uh tray has been
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modified very
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beautifully now we will give our width
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to the
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100 so you can see
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that it has been changed to the
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100 now we will uh render this sheet
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metal tree using the cad R for this head
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over to the Google and uh search for the
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cad R so you will be directed to the
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open.com product/ Cades it is a free so
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once you scroll down then you will find
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here download banies for the windows
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which is the Cades
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1.0 to download it once you download it
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it will be downloaded as a zip file and
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now let's uh launch the Cades now you
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will get a zip file of a Cades one once
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it is downloaded ex ract the zip file
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and go to the Cades and here you will
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get the c. exe run
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it and here CAD is open now we will uh
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switch to the free cat and we will
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export our body as a step file so we
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will click on the
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export and
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select here the step and we will save it
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as a same name click on the
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save say
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okay now move to the C address go to the
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file sections click on the
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import and uh here select the model
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sheet metal tray which are step file
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click on open and click on
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import so you can see that uh our tray
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is uh imported in a Cades now we will uh
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select our body go to the material
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sections select on the metal and from
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here I will uh select the Chrome because
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uh it is a
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steel now let's wait so that it get
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render now you can uh also customize
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some settings
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from
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here let's
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uh change some setting reflect option
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roughness so let's uh you can drag it
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from left to right to get the
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roughness and let uh make it more
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fine little bit
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uh okay
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now we can uh
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also use some texture from here you can
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add the textures so I'm not going much
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more depth of the rain ring but uh this
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is how we have
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successfully modeled the sheet metal
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tray and we have rendered it in a free
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cat so this is all about this tutorial
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