Sketch Driven Sheet Metal Part 2017

Under selections do the following.

Sketch driven sheet metal part 2017.

Expanded defer options. Use the extract ifeature command to extract and save a sketched feature or a sketch in a catalog for future use. Se videoen og få et indblik. With a part assembly or drawing open click tools options document properties sheet metal.

When using the sketch driven pattern tool you are given the option to choose a reference point to pattern about. Let s have a look at what this does. All sheet metal parts have a fixed face. 1 sketches created in the folded state can have an equivalent transformed sketch in the flat pattern state.

Sheet metal punch tools are ifeatures with additional attribution. New controls permit you to share part properties and part names in addition to the model. For more information about solid. This can be either the centroid or a selected point.

Click either centroid to use the centroid of the seed feature or selected point to use another point as the reference point. This video shows the difference between creating a sheet metal part from scratch and converting a solid part to sheet metal. New workflow options and controls were added to the sheet metal environment in inventor 2017. If necessary use the flyout featuremanager design tree to select a reference sketch to use as the pattern.

In the below example we have a sheet metal part with a cut out in the back. To open this dialog box. Click sketch driven pattern features toolbar or insert pattern mirror sketch driven pattern. The sketch driven pattern command quickly generates features or bodies in complex arrangements defined in a 2d or 3d sketch.

Click view hide show sketches. In the featuremanager design tree expand flat pattern and flat pattern n right click bend lines and click show. Things to be aware of when using the sketch driven pattern tool. Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the folded and the flat pattern states fig.

To show bend lines in flat patterns do one of the following. To extract all the features in a part select the base. If the selected feature has geometrically dependent features they are automatically selected but you can delete them using the extract ifeature dialog box.