Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

To open this dialog box.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks.

Calculates the material cost of a part by determining the number of parts that can be manufactured from the selected sheet. In short is there a way to manually edit the sheet metal thickness cut list property. Setting up sheet metal. And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties.

You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor. See the reply in context. Deepak gupta may 16 2017 12 17 pm. 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 convert a solid part to a sheet metal part. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. 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. To display this screen.

Create the solid part. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination. 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.

Now double click on the inserted sheet metal in the assembly this will show the feature dimensions and then double click on the thickness dimensions. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. Click view hide show sketches.

Define a global variable in the assembly. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010.

Calculates the weight of the part based on the values defined for material thickness from template and area to cost. From the dimension drop box select unlink value. In the costing template editor click thickness.