You create sheet metal parts from a template file.
Changing the thickness of sheet metal parts in inventor.
Design a sheet metal bracket in this project we ll design a bracket using the sheet metal environment inside inventor for an inkjet printer while in context of the larger assembly.
Use thickness from rule is disabled if the active part is a sheet metal ipart factory and the ipart table was created with thickness as a column in the table optional to edit or create a sheet metal rule or unfolding rule click edit next to the appropriate field to open the style and standard editor.
You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule.
But the thickness does not change.
Styles manage many aspects of your sheet metal design including the thickness bend corner reliefs and the correction applied.
Auto detecting sheet metal thickness new in autodesk inventor 2016 duration.
You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
Autodesk inventor 2017 ilogic change sheet metal rule for all parts in active assembly duration.
Is it possible to change the thickness of a sheet metal part via api.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
Total project time approximately 20 minutes.
Under sheet metal parameters.
The sheet metal template file incorporates a set of rules.
The rules determine some common attributes such as material type and thickness unfolding rules gap sizes and so on.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
2014 solidworks api help change bend radius of sheet metal part example vba and added a few lines to change the thickness.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
Use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to change the options and parameters defined by the selected sheet metal rule for the active sheet metal part.
Hi i m trying to change the bend inside radius of a sheet metal part and can t seem to figure out how to.
Create sheet metal parts.
I have found in the api help the code to change the bend radius see.
By changing a single rule you can change the material of a sheet metal part from aluminum.
