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How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

(OP)
I have one sheet metal part with two configurations.  Each configuration has different bend radii (amoung other things).  Solidworks forces any change in the bend radius to be applied over all the configurations.  Is there any workaround for this "feature"?

RE: How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

Jason,

I just created a sheet metal part with a design table and SolidWorks let me change the bend radius for each configuration.  So either I do not understand your question or maybe you are using a different version of SolidWorks.  What version and service pack are you working with?

Regards,

Regg

RE: How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

How & when are you trying to changing the bend radius?

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

(OP)
I am using 2005 SP02.

I create a sheetmetal part, create an edge flange, add a configuration, edit the feature to change the bend radius on the new configuration, and discover that the original configuration has changed too.

Sadly, I do not know enough about design table syntax to just guess at what the variable name(s) might be.

RE: How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

Double Click the feature in the tree to see the dimensions for it like bend radius. Right click the dimension and select properties and there you will find the dimension name which you can change to a more easily recognized name like "BendRadius". Paste that into your design table is you want to control it that way. Or simply edit the dimension and select "this config".

The key to applying different dimension values to "Feature" dimensions is to double click the feature then edit the dimension that pops up. Then you get the same dimension dialogue that you see in sketches. you can also show all dimensions in the mode from the "Annotations" folder located at the top of the feature tree.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP3.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: How do I put Sheet Metal feature attributes in a Design Table?

(OP)
I am so embarassed.  I could swear that the bend radius was not one of the dimensions that appeared on double-clicking.

Nevermind.  Move along. Nothing-to-see-here.

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