I'd guess you won't have problems placing a sheetmetal feature on a
non-sheetmetal part, but the inverse is not true. I once tried to model a
part of heavy-guage plate (1.5" thick or so) as sheetmetal. I had no
problem with that, but the edges needed a chamfer on them. The sheetmetal
chamfer tool will not allow you to chamfer an edge between a face and the
thickness of the material. It's not easy to describe but I hope you know
what I mean. I switched the interface over to standard modeling and added
the chamfer without a problem. However, the flat pattern would either
ignore every feature after and including the chamfer, or Inventor would
crash on me. This was in 5.3, though, and I haven't tried anything similar
in 6, but I will bet it would be the same thing.
"Joe Dupre"
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> Is it OK to switch back and forth between Sheet Metal mode and Modeling
> mode? Or am I going to get bit in the butt doing this?
>
> I have a model that is not a sheet metal part, but I would like to add
some
> punch features to it. The punch feature is only available in sheet metal
> mode. Inventor 6 SP1 allows me to switch into sheet metal mode, add the
> punch features, and then switch back to modeling mode.
>
> I'm just wondering if this is a legitimate way of working or if it is
likely
> to cause problems down the road.
>
> - Joe
>
>