Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
Changing the thickness of sheet metal parts in inventor.
Styles manage many aspects of your sheet metal design including the thickness bend corner reliefs and the correction applied.
Is it possible to change the thickness of a sheet metal part via api.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
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.
Any ideas would be great thanks john inventor 2008.
But the thickness does not change.
Auto detecting sheet metal thickness new in autodesk inventor 2016 duration.
Total project time approximately 20 minutes.
By changing a single rule you can change the material of a sheet metal part from aluminum.
The thickness of the sheet metal is 0478 and i want to have a tighter radius of 015 on all the flanges.
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.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
I have found in the api help the code to change the bend radius see.
Under sheet metal parameters.
You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule.
Create sheet metal parts.
The rules determine some common attributes such as material type and thickness unfolding rules gap sizes and so on.
The sheet metal template file incorporates a set of rules.
Autodesk inventor 2017 ilogic change sheet metal rule for all parts in active assembly duration.
Access the style and standard.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
2014 solidworks api help change bend radius of sheet metal part example vba and added a few lines to change the thickness.
Hi i m trying to change the bend inside radius of a sheet metal part and can t seem to figure out how to.
