Convert To Sheet Metal Unable To Thicken The Surface

Phillip mobley phillip mobley on may 20 2016 9 56 am.

Convert to sheet metal unable to thicken the surface.

You can use the shell outward and not only you will get a nice explanation of why the shell fails but you can highlight the faces that are creating all the problems see fig. In the evaluate tab look at the curvature of the face the primary reason for the thicken feature failing is that the curvature is too sharp to actually produce an offset in these cases. I can optimize the punch setup by having long shear lengths and only 1 angle square punch. Click thicken on the features toolbar or click insert boss base thicken.

Like show 0 likes 0. 1 convert to single solid 2 get surfaces from the geometry 3 remove solids 4 thicken the surface 5 set sheet metal thickness 6 create flat pattern. The program is unable to thicken the surface. See if offset surface works if it does you can manually complete the thicken feature usually when thicken fails offset will fails 2.

If an edge already has a fillet applied the radius of the fillet is used as the bend radius for the new sheet metal part. In the graphics area select a surface to thicken. It is too bad that no such troubleshooting tool has been included in the offset or thicken surface commands. Hey all after playing around with the degree and tangent length settings i was able to thicken it.

In the convert to sheet metal propertymanager you specify the fixed face and thickness of the sheet metal part the default bend radius and the edges or fillet faces on which to create bends. When thicken fails 1. The software automatically selects the edges on which rips are applied. Fortunately the shell command has such a debugging tool.

2 convert imported solids into inventor objects 3 set the sheet metal thickness to match the part steps. According to the curvature i a should be in the all clear.