When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
Changing the thickness of sheet metal parts in inventor.
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.
By changing a single rule you can change the material of a sheet metal part from aluminum.
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.
But the thickness does not change.
Under sheet metal parameters.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
Any ideas would be great thanks john inventor 2008.
You create sheet metal parts from a template file.
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.
Auto detecting sheet metal thickness new in autodesk inventor 2016 duration.
Styles manage many aspects of your sheet metal design including the thickness bend corner reliefs and the correction applied.
Hi i m trying to change the bend inside radius of a sheet metal part and can t seem to figure out how to.
The rules determine some common attributes such as material type and thickness unfolding rules gap sizes and so on.
You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule.
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.
2014 solidworks api help change bend radius of sheet metal part example vba and added a few lines to change the thickness.
The sheet metal template file incorporates a set of rules.
I have found in the api help the code to change the bend radius see.
Create sheet metal parts.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
Total project time approximately 20 minutes.
