Category:Bracketage

Bracketage (rhymes with "garage") is the art of designing, making and installing brackets. Working mechanical engineers spend a significant amount of their careers designing ways to bracket objects onto each other.

This category page is designed to support that important though unglamorous subject.

Here is set of tutorials showing basic use of Solidworks leading to sheet-metal bracket design and fabrication in the Metal Shop

Solidworks Tutorials

Tutorial 1	Tutorial 2a	Tutorial 2b
Lowest-level introduction	Designing a bracket	Building the bracket