Convert To Sheet Metal Unable To Thicken The Surface

Sheetmetal surface need to thicken this is the beauty of being able to work in the flat with extrudes while in sheetmetal mode.

Convert to sheet metal unable to thicken the surface. Click thicken on the features toolbar or click insert boss base thicken. According to the curvature i a should be in the all clear. Fortunately the shell command has such a debugging tool. 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.

Phillip mobley phillip mobley on may 20 2016 9 56 am. 2 convert imported solids into inventor objects 3 set the sheet metal thickness to match the part steps. In the graphics area select a surface to thicken. See if offset surface works if it does you can manually complete the thicken feature usually when thicken fails offset will fails 2.

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. When thicken fails 1. 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. Under thicken parameters do the following.

Like show 0 likes 0. 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. Examine the preview and select the side of the surface you want to thicken as shown below. Hey all after playing around with the degree and tangent length settings i was able to thicken it.

The program is unable to thicken the surface. 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.