Sheet Metal Gauge Table
Sheet metal gauge tables store properties for a designated material.
You can access the sheet metal gauge table from the PropertyManager while
creating the base
flange. Use a sheet metal gauge table to assign:
Gauge thickness
Allowable
bend radii
K-factor
After creating the base flange, access the
sheet metal gauge table by right-clicking Sheet-Metal
in the FeatureManager design tree and selecting Edit Feature.
Use a sheet metal gauge/bend table to specify
both thickness and bend values with a single table. See Sheet
Metal Gauge/Bend Table.
Assigning Bend Radius Values
You can use the sheet metal gauge table to assign values for the whole
part. This is called the default. However, you can apply bend radius values
that are different from the default value in the sheet metal gauge table
to specific features, such as edge flanges.
Controlling Bend Radius Values
If you select Use
Default radius, you can use one general bend radius value from
the sheet metal gauge table for all the downstream features.
If you select Use
gauge table, the bend radius value you use is different than the
default value from the sheet metal gauge table.
If you clear both Use
Default Radius and Use gauge table,
you can type in the bend radius value.
To
apply a bend radius value different from the gauge table value:
Create a base flange, and in the PropertyManager,
under Sheet Metal Gauges, select
Use gauge table and then select
a table
Add another sheet metal feature to the part.
In the PropertyManager, clear Use
default radius, and select Use
gauge table.
In the sheet metal gauge table, select another
value for the bend radius.
If you change the default value by using
a different sheet metal gauge table bend radius value, the feature maintains
its set value and does not change.
To manually assign a bend radius value:
In the PropertyManager, clear Use default radius.
Type in a value for bend radius.
K-Factor
If the K-factor is left blank in the sheet metal gauge table, all the
bend allowance values default to those last used.
Creating a Sheet Metal Gauge Table
Tables are included in the SolidWorks application, and are located in:
<install_dir>\lang\<language>Sheet
Metal Gauge Tables\.
If you create a sheet metal gauge table, use a semi colon - ;
- as a delimiter between values.