Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

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Change sheet metal thickness solidworks.

Setting up sheet metal. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal. Click view hide show sketches. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal.

To open this dialog box. Here is my workaround. Calculates the material cost of a part by determining the number of parts that can be manufactured from the selected sheet. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following.

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. Go to the first created feature in the mamager tree base flange1 click on rmb and select edit feature. 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 convert a solid part to a sheet metal part.

Calculates the weight of the part based on the values defined for material thickness from template and area to cost. In the costing template editor click thickness. You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor. And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties.

Define a global variable in the assembly. 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. From the dimension drop box select unlink value. In short is there a way to manually edit the sheet metal thickness cut list property.

See the reply in context. You can not changes those properties but can add yours with desired values. Create the solid part. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010.

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. 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.