Changing The Thickness Of Sheet Metal Parts In Inventor

Use thickness from rule is disabled if the active part is a sheet metal ipart factory and the ipart table was created with thickness as a column in the table optional to edit or create a sheet metal rule or unfolding rule click edit next to the appropriate field to open the style and standard editor.

Changing the thickness of sheet metal parts in inventor.

Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. But the thickness does not change. 2014 solidworks api help change bend radius of sheet metal part example vba and added a few lines to change the thickness. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Styles manage many aspects of your sheet metal design including the thickness bend corner reliefs and the correction applied. Under sheet metal parameters. Total project time approximately 20 minutes. Auto detecting sheet metal thickness new in autodesk inventor 2016 duration.

The rules determine some common attributes such as material type and thickness unfolding rules gap sizes and so on. You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule. You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule. You create sheet metal parts from a template file.

The thickness of the sheet metal is 0478 and i want to have a tighter radius of 015 on all the flanges. Hi i m trying to change the bend inside radius of a sheet metal part and can t seem to figure out how to. The sheet metal template file incorporates a set of rules. By changing a single rule you can change the material of a sheet metal part from aluminum.

Access the style and standard. Any ideas would be great thanks john inventor 2008. Create sheet metal parts. I have found in the api help the code to change the bend radius see.

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. 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. Autodesk inventor 2017 ilogic change sheet metal rule for all parts in active assembly duration.