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Sheet Metal in CC

johan.degreef — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:55:52 GMT

I have created an ipart of an angle in sheet metal to put in the Content Center. In the ipart all seems to work well, but as soon as I publish it to the content center, it always insert in the same thickness, altough the SheetMetalRule is different for each instance.

Re: Sheet Metal in CC

CGBenner — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:50:46 GMT

@johan.degreef

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Re: Sheet Metal in CC

CGBenner — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:08:30 GMT

@johan.degreef

I found this thread from a few years ago. It's a long read, but it might help you with your problem.

Re: Sheet Metal in CC

johan.degreef — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:43:35 GMT

I found this too, but I think there is no straith way to a descent solution. I think I am going to keep the sheet meatl out of the CC.

Re: Sheet Metal in CC

Chancellor.Kurre — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:19:06 GMT

If you're comfortable with iLogic there's a decent solution. You'll have to set up a rule to run before save that sets the desired sheet metal rule according to what the table tells it. Took a little bit to figure out, but once it is in CC it works great. Hope this helps!

Re: Sheet Metal in CC

Chancellor.Kurre — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:21:59 GMT

Here's a link to a similar one where I went into a little more detail and posted a file containing the rule in question

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/sheet-metal-part-profile-as-a-content-center-part-in-inventor/m-p/9996990#M813518

Re: Sheet Metal in CC

johnsonshiue — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 00:21:03 GMT

Hi! This is a limitation in CC publish workflow. It is not able to recognize the rule from the table and apply it to the sheet metal part accordingly. Aside from using a parameter to drive thickness as discussed in above thread, I am not aware of other solutions.

Many thanks!