Autodesk Inventor 11/sheet metal
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Posted by: Deadhorse ® 01/05/2009, 15:11:00 Author Profile eMail author Edit

I'm a ProEngineer user of 10 years but just started at a new company that has Inventor/Sheet Metal package that I'm teaching myself, they've never used it before. I started my current project by creating a sheet metal part and set the material thickness at the beginning. When I was finish the part flat pattern worked just fine. The next thing I did was start an assembly and insert my initial part to create additional parts of it because of the unusual geometry. Now the assembly is complete and I open the other parts individually but the flat patter doesn't work. If I convert the part to a model and then back to a sheet metal part I get the message "For proper unfolding the model should have uniform thicknes..." but I can't find where to set this in the part file or the assembly. Is this something I should've done at the beginning of my assembly creation and can it be fixed at this point?

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Posted by: Mark Wilson ® 03/25/2009, 01:26:30 Author Profile eMail author Edit

When you open the other sheet metal part. Step-1 : Go to Tools - fx Parameters and change bend radius equal to thickess. Step-2 : Click on Bend command (From panel bar),select inner edge & click OK. Step-3 : Click on flat pattern It should work. Mark, Indovance

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