Change Sheet Metal Thickness Inventor

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.

Change sheet metal thickness inventor. Access the style and standard. Ipt as the template. The process starts out with a. Kelly young inventor technical support spe.

How do you define the thickness of the sheetmetal when creating a sheetmetal part. You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule. Share and vote on ideas for future product releases. Check at the bottom of this post for the video version of this blog or just keep on reading for the text version.

You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule. Changing sheet metal thickness. I want to create this item in 10mm plate but i cannot even set it to 1mm sheetmetal. We produce a lot of sheet metal work using invento and use 0 2732 for below 3mm sheet and 0 3365 for 3mm and above using ilogic we automatically set the k factor depending on the thk of material so we don t forget to adjust it each time.

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. My text refers to a thickness parameter value which i cannot find in inventor 2015 contour flange. In the ribbon select sheet metal defaults. 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.

Dialog select the metric folder and choose sheet metal mm. Products and versions covered. In the dialog uncheck use thickness from rule and enter 1 17mm as the thickness value. The k factors mentioned are to suit our own press and tools of course.

Change the material to stainless steel select ok to set the defaults.