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This is a great idea! Especially since we can now have multiple sheet metal thickness styles in a single part. A Sheet Metal Thicken command would allow us to simply select which Style to use.
Perhaps the Sheet Metal Thicken command could even automatically add bends to corners, just like the Contour Flange command does. That would be a HUGE time-saver!
This shall also be valid to extrude a line, where the length of the line shall be be the width of the metal-sheet, the extrude shall be the length and the thicken is the thickness. This you can do e.g. in SolidWorks.
@Eikaas_Even The Standard Thicken/Offset feature is still available in the Sheet Metal Environment. For this Shape however, try the Lofted Flange Operation.
But i do agree with DRoam, there should be a option to add the Bends automatically.
@Gajus61 This has been in Inventor for ages, its just called Contour Flange.
@Lucas.dolinarVFXZU First of all, the shape that first was posted was not the best example. But my point were/is that Thicken/Offset is a 3D-model feature, not a Sheet Metal feature.
So to get for an example a flat pattern using when Thicken/Offset you need to manually edit Thickness to match your Sheet Metal rule.
If there was a Thicken/Offset function in Sheet Metal, this would follow your Sheet Metal rule the same way Face, Countor Flange, Lofted Flange etc. does.
This example is also simple (could be made with face+flange), but if you want to make a surface skeleton with mulitple surfaces with the purpose of using Derive into many serperate Sheet Metal parts, Thicken/Offset (Sheet Metal) would save time. This example also covers @DRoam's idea of adding bends automaticly.
So to conclude, instead of sketching Thicken/Offset (Sheet Metal) could add thickenss and bend to this shape without further sketching.
For myself, having the thicken feature in the sheet metal flat pattern environment would be great. This would be much faster to add material before laser cutting . (In case it needs to be machined)
This would be especially helpful in iPart environments where sketches are likely to get corrupted, making extrusions a nonviable option. Thicken would make things so much easier.
