Change Sheet Metal Thickness Solidworks

Is there a way around this cause i would really like to not have to change out every table cause i have to make a new custom cultist property to evaluate sheet mental thickness.

Change sheet metal thickness solidworks.

When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature. Under sheet metal parameters. A great tool available to solidworks sheet metal users is the sheet metal gauge table in this table users can configure a microsoft excel spreadsheet to represent the appropriate sheet metal wall thickness based on material and gauge values. Unfolded sheet metal before correction.

But for some reason after i make an extruded cut i can t change the thickness anymore. The issue i have is that when i go to change the sheet metal thickness value in the cut list properties solidworks will not let me edit the property. Sep 29 2006 1 r. Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.

At this point you add another body to the mirrored part. Start date sep 29 2006. Now you can change the thickness at the sheet metal parameters box. I started out with a box with 06 thickness but as the design has evolved the box is much bigger now and i want to change its thickness to 09 but the thickness value is disabled grayed out in the sheet metal feature now.

Therefore the new body will have the mirrored sheet metal part thickness at 2 mm fig. Notice the override default parameter is unchecked. Notice the mirrored part thickness and global thickness variable does not. Now you change the parent seed sheet metal part thickness.

Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature. Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part. I m having trouble changing the thickness of a sheet metal part created through swept flange command. Folded sheet metal with bottom added after correction.

As you can see in the video when i change the thickness before making an extruded cut everything goes as expected the thickness changes normally. But it doesn t appear possible to change the sheet metal thickness of a part started with base flange after the fact.