Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks. And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties. You can not changes those properties but can add yours with desired values. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. See the reply in context.

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. Define a global variable in the assembly. To open this dialog box.

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. You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination.

Create the solid part. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box. Calculates the weight of the part based on the values defined for material thickness from template and area to cost. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show.

Here is my workaround. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010. Setting up sheet metal. To display this screen.

In the costing template editor click thickness. Deepak gupta may 16 2017 12 17 pm. Go to the first created feature in the mamager tree base flange1 click on rmb and select edit feature. In short is there a way to manually edit the sheet metal thickness cut list property.

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. Calculates the material cost of a part by determining the number of parts that can be manufactured from the selected sheet. 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.