Sketch Driven Sheet Metal Part

Geomagic design added a global parameter function in the latest release.

Sketch driven sheet metal part.

In it you will design and manipulate the enclosure to fit your original part. If necessary use the flyout featuremanager design tree to select a reference sketch to use as the pattern. It looks like the punch solution will work for you. Sketch driven sheet metal assembly design is the perfect course for you.

17 from main window file new global parameters to create a new file capture 1 and create a new parameter rotor dia with a value of 400mm capture 2. Lines splines and arcs are. Just mate the part correctly to one hole and use one of the pattern point as reference. Click sketch driven pattern features toolbar or insert pattern mirror sketch driven pattern.

It is unnecessary step to add the extra part and then suppress it. Click either centroid to use the centroid of the seed feature or selected point to use another point as the reference point. Thickness is represented by t and d b is the diameter of the blank. Rectangles circles polygons and ellipses are automatically extruded to the thickness of a sheet metal wall as you sketch.

It does not matter if the part is actually sheet metal or not. Under selections do the following. I figured out that if you drive a line in a sketch with a dimension that is controlled by the design table it is possible to manipulate the sheet metal thickness. Example of a fan scroll sheet metal part that uses a layout sketch parameter file and design function equation table.

The course will cover the creation of a portion of an electrical enclosure to house equipment for assembly line processing machines. For noncircular sheet metal parts the maximum diameter is sometimes used. However you must first override the default parameters of the sheet metal feature. The key to creating a punch tool is that 1 it must be intially created on a part face rather than a workplane and 2 it must have a sketch point in the first sketch to indicate where to place on subsiquent sketches.

Sketching sheet metal parts the tools in the sketch group on the sheet metal tab are a little different from normal sketch tools. Make a sketch with all the point locations then create your hardware pattern using that sketch then jus suppress the original piece of hardware and in your drawing subtract 1 from the count. Once this is done it is possible to link the override thickness value to a global variable. See sheet metal options to change the default wall thickness.