Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks.

In line at top of screen click convert check sheet metal in the sheet metal features column click sheet metal defaults uncheck use thickness from rule type metal thickness in thickness box. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. You can not changes those properties but can add yours with desired values. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show.

Here is my workaround. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties.

Deepak gupta may 16 2017 12 17 pm. From the dimension drop box select unlink value. Define a global variable in the assembly. Setting up sheet metal.

Click view hide show sketches. Calculates the weight of the part based on the values defined for material thickness from template and area to cost. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal.

In short is there a way to manually edit the sheet metal thickness cut list property. Go to the first created feature in the mamager tree base flange1 click on rmb and select edit feature. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact.

Create the solid part. I started out with a box with 06 thickness but as the design has evolved the box is much bigger now and i want to change its thickness to 09 but the thickness value is disabled grayed out in the sheet metal feature now. To display this screen. See the reply in context.

The convert to sheet metal command lets you specify the thickness bends and rips necessary to convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. In the costing template editor click thickness. Calculates the material cost of a part by determining the number of parts that can be manufactured from the selected sheet.