Include solid parameters using make component

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

The products we design mostly consist of sheetmetal parts, which we design in a part file as separate solids, after that we use the 'Make Components' command to derive the lot into sheetmetal template files.

One of the things we have not managed to automate yet with iLogic is filling in the plate thickness.

We tried using an extents measurement, but this does not work when bodies are not parallel to each of the origin planes.

Does anybody know if it is possible to automatically export parameters related to a solid which we can then use in a bit of iLogic code to fill in that value for the sheetmetalstyle?

[kennyj]

Hi Sebastiaanvanloon!

Have you considered making custom materials with these properties?  Assign the materials to the individual parts and have the sheet metal template use the material for designating thickness?

Hope this helps.

-Kenny

[Anonymous]

Yes I have. At first glance it seems like  a good way to solve this. However we often deal with 100+ parts with approximately 3-6 different thicknesses, so filtering these out is a bit time consuming.

I've also used a bit of code that changes the sheetmetal style for all parts in an assembly, but this is only efficient when 70% of the parts or more have the same thickness