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Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

(OP)
Hello,
I'm playing with and testing the Sheet Metal Material Table. And i have some questions about it.

Till now we select the material thickness in Sheet Metal Preferences. As default we always use a bend radius, relief depth and relief width the same as the material thicknes.
As k-factor we use 0,5 till 3mm thickness, and above 3mm we use k-factor 0.35.

1- I have changed the Sheet Metal Material Table and the values Material Thickness, Bend Radius and K-Factor are working fine with the Sheet Metal Material Table.
But is it possible that also the values Relief Depth and Relief Width be filled in automatically?


2- The Sheet Metal Material Table consists of 6 parts.
The first 3 i understand, but the 4th (secondary tables), 5th (formulas) and the 6th (standard values)i don't. But i think we don't need them.
We don't use joggle's and aerospace things, so can i totaly remove those parts from the Sheet Metal Material Table?

3- Is it possible to link the material set in Tools > Meterials to the material thicknes in Preferences > Sheet Metal Preferences so we don't have to set both.


I hope someone as a answer for me.
Thanks.

Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)

RE: Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

(OP)
Complement first post:

The best and easiest way would be that the bend radius and K-factor would react when you fill in the thicknes when starting the Base-Tab in sheet metal.

Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)

RE: Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

from file new you can customize the sheetmetal seed part,
different seed parts for the thickness you want to use, in the different seed parts you use differnt standard thickness and k values...

RE: Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

(OP)
Thanks uwam2ie.
But having a different tempate for every plate-thickness is not a solution we like.

Maybe I found a other solution. Adding a formula at the relief depth and width which is directing to the sheet metal thickness. So far this works at part-level.
Now i want to change the tamplate but i don't have the rights on those files at this moment, and the administrator is on holyday, so will be continued.

But if enyone else has a other/better solution, please tell me.

Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)

RE: Sheet metal material table. And relief depth

(OP)
Finally i have the rights on that Sheet metal material table file. And I've tried the formula for the relief depth and relief width, but sadly that doesn't work.

Does anybody have a other idea how to fix this?

Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)

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