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Sheet Metal's dimension limits

Sheet Metal's dimension limits

The sheet metal panels is cut from sheets of commercial dimension. (in exemple 1500x3600mm)

 

Insert in the sheet metal' default values two new values fields for the Maximum length and width of the native panel.

If the sheet metal is cut from metal Coils, only one measure is requested.

 

When the opened sheet metal has one measure (or both two) greater then the native panel measures, the system give an error.

 

thanx

Alessandro

 

 

 

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ThomasSwanson
Advocate

I have had multiple customer request for the ability to change stock number for different sheet metal rules. 

 

User set  up sheet metal rules for many different metal types/thickness that cover a range of stock numbers.  It would be nice to have a stock number field in the rule dialog box, much like the materials,  so that a different stock number can be entered that will push to the iproperties when selected.

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ThomasSwanson
Advocate

stock no on sheet metal.jpg

ejmacchi
Participant

Sheet metal rules allow you to build a library of sheet materials that match your materials available in stock. The raw materials have their own properties, such as cost, a particular stock number, etc. It would be nice to be able to store iProperty overrides in the sheet metal rules, so that these properties are automatically filled out by selecting the sheet metal rule in a part.

 

Example: you have a sheet metal rule for 0,5mm 1.4301 Steel. That material gets stored under its own stock number at a particular storage location, and has a cost $XX/m2. By selecting the rule for "0,5mm 1.4301" the Stock Number and Estimated Cost iProperties, and Storage_Location custom property are automatically filled out. These values would come from additional fields in the sheet metal rule.

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ejmacchi
Participant

Example of how it could look:

 

SM iProperties Concept.png

jtylerbc
Mentor

Seems like this could be done now with some fairly simple iLogic work.  It might be as simple as adding a few User Parameters, and a rule to check the material dimensions agains the sheet metal extents of the part (and warn the user if the limits are violated).

ic198
Advocate

If you right-click on 'Flat Pattern' in the browser there is an option for 'Extents' which displays the length, width and sheet extent area of the flat pattern. Not quite what you are looking for but it is very useful, a very quick way to check parts you think might be too large.

ejmacchi
Participant

I have exactly the same problem. We want to compare the part size to the maximum usable sheet size. Instead of having just those two fields, I had an idea for a more generalized solution where the active SM rule could override any number of iProperties:

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/iproperty-overrides-from-sheet-metal-rule/idi-p/5641555

 

 

Currently we have implemented a solution with iLogic, exactly as described by jtylerbc, but this is far more complex than it seams, especially if you want it to be scalable. The result is a solution that is incredibly difficult to maintain. Having the ability to control this information from the SM rule would be more flexible and easier to manage.

 

rob_bolter
Enthusiast
Totally agree, was about to submit this myself. I made a ribbon plugin to do this for my company.
ThomasSwanson
Advocate

I did it with two illogic codes, or maybe it was one.   Anyway, it was a huge case statement that looks up the name of the sheetmetal style and then applies the correct stock number to the iproperty on save.   It works but you have to make certain that both the sheet metal rule and the name in the case statement are spelled exactly the same or it will not find it.   Not to mention I have to edit it every time they add another sheet metal style to Inventor.

 

 

rob_bolter
Enthusiast
I did similar using a plugin I wrote to go on the ribbon. Mine looks through an XML file and selects a sheet that best matches the components size. It just seems like such a fundamental thing to be missing from Inventor, especially Sheet Metal parts.
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