Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks. At this point you add another body to the mirrored part. I m having trouble changing the thickness of a sheet metal part created through swept flange command. Is there a way around this cause i would really like to not have to change out every table cause i have to make a new custom cultist property to evaluate sheet mental thickness. There are many other tools that can be used with this software.

Oct 5 2006 3 r. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. But for some reason after i make an extruded cut i can t change the thickness anymore.

Start date sep 29 2006. Notice the override default parameter is unchecked. Now you change the parent seed sheet metal part thickness. Folded sheet metal with bottom added after correction.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. A great tool available to solidworks sheet metal users is the sheet metal gauge table in this table users can configure a microsoft excel spreadsheet to represent the appropriate sheet metal wall thickness based on material and gauge values. 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. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.

Under sheet metal parameters. Miter flange lofted bend corner controls sheet metal gusset and rip are all very common tools that can make life easier for the designer. As you can see in the video when i change the thickness before making an extruded cut everything goes as expected the thickness changes normally. Unfolded sheet metal before correction.

The issue i have is that when i go to change the sheet metal thickness value in the cut list properties solidworks will not let me edit the property. Sep 29 2006 1 r.