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Incorrect K Factor

Incorrect K Factor

Incorrect K Factor

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The question I have is with the Flange feature of Generative SheetMetal and most importantly the K Factor.

I’ve created a spreadsheet of our company standards for material thickness; bend radius, and K Factors. When I create SheetMetal parts I pick from this table for my parameters and CATIAV5 fills out the panels for Thickness, Default Bend Radius and K Factor. I believe at this point everything pretty much works, as it should when I create bends hopefully it’s using my K Factors from my spreadsheet.

Here is the problem when I create a flange using the Flange feature within CATIAV5 Generative Sheet Metal design I then look at the Flange definition dialog box. There is a default value of 0.5 and the panel is white, if it would had used the spreadsheet value the panel would have been a gray color. I can manual tie the two values together using Edit Formula but why should I have too.

 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Tsqman

RE: Incorrect K Factor

I've had this sort of difficulty before.  Design tables, as nice as they are, and as well as they DO work, are not perfect.

Try re-creating your table using the existing values option.

From past experience, this seems to be the simplest option.

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