Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

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

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks. Here is my workaround. And then link the drawing notes annotations to those properties. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box.

See the reply in context. Deepak gupta may 16 2017 12 17 pm. 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.

Click view hide show sketches. 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. Multiple bodies sheet metal part work in sw2010.

In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. Setting up sheet metal. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination. To convert a solid part to a sheet metal part.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. 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. Create the solid part. Define a global variable in the assembly.

Calculates the weight of the part based on the values defined for material thickness from template and area to cost. To open this dialog box. To display this screen. Click convert to sheet metal sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal convert to sheet metal.

You can copy and paste numerical data in the costing template editor. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. From the dimension drop box select unlink value.