Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

Deepak gupta may 16 2017 12 17 pm.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks.

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal 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. See the reply in context.

Define a global variable in the assembly. To display this screen. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination. To open this dialog box.

From the dimension drop box select unlink value. Here is my workaround. 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. You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor.

Calculates the material cost of a part by determining the number of parts that can be manufactured from the selected sheet. Go to the first created feature in the mamager tree base flange1 click on rmb and select edit feature. Create the solid part. In short is there a way to manually edit the sheet metal thickness cut list property.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. Click view hide show sketches. You can not changes those properties but can add yours with desired values.

Setting up sheet metal. And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box.

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. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal.