Generative Sheetmetal Design

Overview

Conventions

What's New?

Getting Started

Entering the Workbench

Defining the Sheet Metal Parameters

Creating the First Wall

Creating the Side Walls

Creating a Cutout

Creating Bends

Extracting Drawings from the Sheet Metal Part

User Tasks

Managing the Default Parameters

Editing the Sheet and Tool Parameters

Modifying the Bend Extremities

Computing the Bend Allowance

Recognizing Walls From an Existing Part

Creating Walls

Creating Walls from a Sketch

Creating Tangent Walls

Creating Walls From An Edge

Creating Bends on Walls

Creating Bends from Walls

Creating Conical Bends

Creating Bends From a Line

Folding and Unfolding Bends

Creating Extrusions

Extruding

Creating Rolled Walls

Creating Swept Walls

Creating a Flange

Creating a Hem

Creating a Tear Drop

Creating a User Flange

Aggregating Bodies

Creating a Hopper

Unfolding

Folded/Unfolded View Access

Concurrent Access

Deactivating Views

Checking Overlapping

Creating a Hole

Creating a Circular Cutout

Creating a Cutout

Stamping

Creating Standard Stamping Features

Creating a Flanged Hole

Creating a Bead

Creating a Circular Stamp

Creating a Surface Stamp

Creating a Bridge

Creating a Flanged Cutout

Creating a Stiffening Rib

Creating a Curve Stamp

Creating a Louver

Creating a Half Pierce Stamp

Creating a Dowel

Recognizing Stamping Features

Creating User-Defined Stamping Features

Creating a Punch with a Die

Creating a Punch with Opening Faces

Editing User-Defined Stamps

Patterning

Creating Rectangular Patterns

Creating Circular Patterns

Creating User-Defined Patterns

Isometries

Creating Translations

Creating Rotations

Creating Symmetries

Transforming Elements From an Axis to Another

Mirroring

Creating a Local Corner Relief

Creating Corners

Creating Chamfers

Mapping Elements

Interoperability with Wireframe

Creating Points

Creating Lines

Creating Planes

Interoperability with Knowledge Expert

Sheet Metal Shared Package

Integration With Part Design

Integration With Weld Design

Integration with Generative Drafting

Producing Drawings

Producing Drawings with Generative View Styles

SheetMetal Parameters

Designing in Context

Designing in Context

Modifying the Design

Managing PowerCopies

Creating PowerCopies Features

Instantiating PowerCopies Features

Saving PowerCopies Features

Browsing the Sheet Metal Catalog

Looking For Sheet Metal Features

Saving As DXF

Workbench Description

Menu Bar

Walls Toolbar

Specification Tree

Customizing

Generative Sheetmetal Design

Glossary

Index