Changing The Thickness Of Sheet Metal Parts In Inventor

Hi i m trying to change the bend inside radius of a sheet metal part and can t seem to figure out how to.

Changing the thickness of sheet metal parts in inventor. You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius. Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Styles manage many aspects of your sheet metal design including the thickness bend corner reliefs and the correction applied.

The rules determine some common attributes such as material type and thickness unfolding rules gap sizes and so on. Autodesk inventor 2017 ilogic change sheet metal rule for all parts in active assembly duration. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. 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.

By changing a single rule you can change the material of a sheet metal part from aluminum. But the thickness does not change. 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. Auto detecting sheet metal thickness new in autodesk inventor 2016 duration.

I have found in the api help the code to change the bend radius see. Under sheet metal parameters. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Is it possible to change the thickness of a sheet metal part via api.

The thickness of the sheet metal is 0478 and i want to have a tighter radius of 015 on all the flanges. Any ideas would be great thanks john inventor 2008. The sheet metal template file incorporates a set of rules. 2014 solidworks api help change bend radius of sheet metal part example vba and added a few lines to change the thickness.

You create sheet metal parts from a template file. Access the style and standard. Total project time approximately 20 minutes.