Solidworks Change Sheet Metal Thickness

Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

Solidworks change sheet metal thickness.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. For legacy parts opened with the solidworks 2007 application edge flange dimensions appear only after editing existing edge flanges or rebuilding the part. So for your thicker plate like sheets you can select this option and use the plate section of the machining tabs instead of the sheet metal template. Solidworks costing sheet metal costing sheet metal templates costing template editor for sheet metal parts thickness.

A common practice in industry when working with solidworks sheet metal is to show thickness as gauge value. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show.

Thickness is linked to the thickness of the sheet metal part. Double click on the sheet metal1 feature and find and double click the thickness dimension in the graphics area set the dimension to the new thickness and make sure that the drop down button is set to this configuration and click the check box. Use the thickness screen in the costing template editor to set the thickness and cost values for each class and material combination. 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.

It works basically the same any other dimension go to the configuration you want to change. When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Click view hide show sketches. For example 20 gauge equals 0 0359 in.

But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal. To open this dialog box. Solidworks help other versions.

Sketch line of the profile must lie on the selected edge. This will let you bypass the gauge inputs for the sheet metal template but todd s suggestion of using 00 000 etc works as well.