Change Globa Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

In the propertymanager under sheet metal gauges set options if you want to use a gauge table.

Change globa sheet metal thickness solidworks. In line at top of screen click convert check sheet metal in the sheet metal features column click sheet metal defaults uncheck use thickness from rule type metal thickness in thickness box. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. Select use gauge table. Solidworks for sheetmetal 1.

Under sheet metal parameters select use material sheet metal parameters to use sheet metal parameters attached to the selected material. Create a global variable in the equations dialog box or the modify dialog box for dimensions. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact. When you change the value of a global.

Create a new sketch on the front plane. Sets a custom material you defined on the material screen that is associated with the class. In select table select a gauge table to use or click browse and browse to a gauge table. Select a fixed face or edge.

Set two or more dimensions equal to the global variable. For example an 18 gauge is equivalent to a thickness of 0 0359in for a steel part. Change and manage than linked values. Orient your sketch to an isometric view.

Thus in the layout everything will be indicated in inches. Setting up sheet metal. Under sheet metal parameters. 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.

Displays the rows that match the class custom material and thickness selected. Sketch a 6 00 inch square rectangle that is centered on the ucs origin. Thickness gauge for english standard units only sets a thickness gauge for the class and custom material combination. Sets a class you defined on the material screen.

By default when creating a sheet metal body the thickness of the body is controlled by the part thickness. You have to right click sheet metal feature in the feature tree and select edit feature and change the thickness there to receive the effects you re looking for. It is possible to use this kind of table in the sheet metal function of solidworks. On the other hand for the thickness property it is the numerical value which will be used.

Start a new inch part right click on any toolbar and check the sheet metal tool for the sheetmetal toolbar to be available. To use a global variable to link dimensions.