Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

You can not changes those properties but can add yours with desired values.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks.

In the costing template editor click thickness. Setting up sheet metal. Calculates the material cost of a part by determining the number of parts that can be manufactured from the selected sheet. 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.

See the reply in context. Define a global variable in the assembly. Click view hide show sketches. Create the solid part.

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. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. Go to the first created feature in the mamager tree base flange1 click on rmb and select edit feature. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010.

To open this dialog box. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination. From the dimension drop box select unlink value. 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.

You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor. Calculates the weight of the part based on the values defined for material thickness from template and area to cost. Deepak gupta may 16 2017 12 17 pm. In short is there a way to manually edit the sheet metal thickness cut list property.

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. Here is my workaround. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following.

And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties. To display this screen. 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.