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This drawing was attached to an empty part with the message "can you help me model this".

A dimensioned drawing of an angle bracket: 80 wide, 60 deep, 70 tall, 8 mm walls, R8 inside bend, two Ø10 holes in the base 15 mm from the edges and a Ø16 hole in the upright 18 mm from the top.
Caddie's first proposal for the bracket: sketch 7 shapes on the Right Plane, extrude by 80 mm, assign 6061 Alloy.
The attached drawing, and the first change Caddie proposed.

Caddie split the build into two approvals and checked the body before adding the holes:

  1. "Create the 80 mm wide aluminium angle bracket from its 60 × 70 mm side profile, with 8 mm walls and the R8 inside corner." A sketch of six lines and an arc on the Right Plane, an 80 mm mid-plane extrude, and 6061 Alloy.
  2. "Add the centred Ø16 upright hole 18 mm below the top and the two Ø10 base holes 15 mm from the front and side edges, assuming the left base hole mirrors the right." Two sketches and two through-all cuts.
Part1 · after both changes
You
can you help me model this
Caddie
The 6061 aluminium angle bracket is modelled with 8 mm walls, the R8 inside corner and all three through-holes. I assumed the two base holes are symmetric and the upright hole is centred across the 80 mm width, as shown.

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