Changing The Thickness Of Sheet Metal Parts In Inventor

Under sheet metal parameters.

Changing the thickness of sheet metal parts in inventor.

Create sheet metal parts. Access the style and standard. Autodesk inventor 2017 ilogic change sheet metal rule for all parts in active assembly 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.

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. Is it possible to change the thickness of a sheet metal part via api. You create sheet metal parts from a template file. Total project time approximately 20 minutes.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. But the thickness does not change. 2014 solidworks api help change bend radius of sheet metal part example vba and added a few lines to change the thickness. 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.

By changing a single rule you can change the material of a sheet metal part from aluminum. 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. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.

You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule. The rules determine some common attributes such as material type and thickness unfolding rules gap sizes and so on. I have found in the api help the code to change the bend radius see. The sheet metal template file incorporates a set of rules.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Any ideas would be great thanks john inventor 2008. The thickness of the sheet metal is 0478 and i want to have a tighter radius of 015 on all the flanges.