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sheetmetal thickness

sheetmetal thickness

sheetmetal thickness

(OP)
Im creating a sheet metal contour flange.  Shaped like --   |_|

I can change the bend radius, but am unable to find where I can specify the thickness. The default is currently 0.1.
I want to go smaller.

Adam
Solid Edge V17
Windows XP Pro

RE: sheetmetal thickness

Adam,

I'm on version 18 and I'm trying to remember when they changed the menus, but here are the two options.

1.  For version 18 and probably 17, go to Tools, Material Table and a dialogue box will come up with two tabs - one is for the type of material and the other tab is for the gauge.  The gauge tab will have a pull down menu with various thicknesses.  If you don't see one you like, you can type over the values.  You can also edit bend radii and relief values.

2.  On earlier versions, under Tools, Options there is a tab for material thickness that has basically the same info as the gauge tab from option 1.


Hope this helps.

Kyle

RE: sheetmetal thickness

Adam,

to change the default thickness for a part at hand you can also change
a variable. Tools --> Variables. Those values are set when
the template was created and will persist until overwritten.

dy

RE: sheetmetal thickness

Don,

Good point.  You can access a lot of parameters from the variable table.  It helps to rename the variables from their cryptic number names.

Kyle

RE: sheetmetal thickness

(OP)
thanks for the help and advice. I'll got alot to learn about SE.

Adam
Solid Edge V17
Windows XP Pro

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