You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule.
Change sheet metal thickness inventor.
Dialog select the metric folder and choose sheet metal mm.
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.
Access the style and standard.
The process starts out with a.
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.
How do you define the thickness of the sheetmetal when creating a sheetmetal part.
Change the material to stainless steel select ok to set the defaults.
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Total project time approximately 20 minutes.
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You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule.
In the ribbon select sheet metal defaults.
Changing sheet metal thickness.
I want to create this item in 10mm plate but i cannot even set it to 1mm sheetmetal.
The k factors mentioned are to suit our own press and tools of course.
In the dialog uncheck use thickness from rule and enter 1 17mm as the thickness value.
Is there any limit of sheetmetal thickness.
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In short when converting a model to sheet metal inventor 2016 automatically detects the material thickness versus the measure and copy method of previous inventor versions.