Probably a question for M. G. Martinez, if you are watching.
The design is a top-down assy where everything is referenced tosketches/planes at the top:
How do you deal with sheet metal gauge?
Including the thickness of sheetmetal might be needed in order tobe able to mate or reference features or assemblies to one side orthe other of a sheetmetal part.
However, the issue here is that in general terms, I think it isbetter practice to use gauge tables when making sheet metal parts.If you want to avoid mating or refering to surfaces withinsub-assembly sheet metal components you have to include sketchlines at the top level to reflect the thickness of the sheet metalbeing used. This poses a problem because you can't lock your bendtable thickness selection to a dimension on a sketch . So, if youchange the metal gauge at the part level you have to remember to goback to the top level assy and change your sketch to match. This, Ithink, "breaks" a nice top-driven parametric design.
The way I see it, if you want to be fully top-down, you can't usebend tables.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
-Martin
SolidworksConfigurations design Tables
The design is a top-down assy where everything is referenced tosketches/planes at the top:
How do you deal with sheet metal gauge?
Including the thickness of sheetmetal might be needed in order tobe able to mate or reference features or assemblies to one side orthe other of a sheetmetal part.
However, the issue here is that in general terms, I think it isbetter practice to use gauge tables when making sheet metal parts.If you want to avoid mating or refering to surfaces withinsub-assembly sheet metal components you have to include sketchlines at the top level to reflect the thickness of the sheet metalbeing used. This poses a problem because you can't lock your bendtable thickness selection to a dimension on a sketch . So, if youchange the metal gauge at the part level you have to remember to goback to the top level assy and change your sketch to match. This, Ithink, "breaks" a nice top-driven parametric design.
The way I see it, if you want to be fully top-down, you can't usebend tables.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
-Martin
SolidworksConfigurations design Tables
