Deadhorse
24.12.2008, 17:46
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? Deadhorse2008-12-24 18:21:30
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? Deadhorse2008-12-24 18:21:30