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Making Quarantine Cardboard Costumes with SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

Recently I put together a video on how you can use SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal to create cardboard costumes following an enclosure design workflow:

If you want a starting point, below are the files I used to create the costume. I built the design with in-context references and a fairly quick scaling technique for larger or smaller versions.

To scale the costume first edit the “Scale” value from the assembly’s file properties (File > Properties). Change the value to a larger number to make the costume bigger or smaller to make the costume smaller. The scale is based on 1 being 100%, so a 1.2 value would equate to a 120% size change.

, Making Quarantine Cardboard Costumes with SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

Then edit the ‘Scale’ feature (saved in the favorites folder), to the same value as your file property value, exit editing the part, rebuild, and you’ve got a scaled version of the costume we used.