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I set the Material, Thickness, Gap, and Unfold Rule (more on Unfold Rules later). In this example, I select the Default rule and click New to use it as the starting template for my new rule. This means that a global library can be defined for all parts to use, but it is flexible for local edits to occur. Here for example as three tabs of the Flange feature, all used to override the setting specified as the defaults.īoth the Sheet Metal Rules and Unfold Rules are styles, managed via the Styles and Standard Editor. You can override these settings with each feature you place. What you specify in this dialog are used only as the defaults. This is no different than the material list accessed from the iPropertiers dialog or from the Material Browser dialog. Unchecking Use Thickness from Rule allows you to specify the thickness, ignoring the thickness set in the rule. The Material drop-down provides another method of setting the active material. Using this dialog, you set the defaults used when placing sheet metal features.
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Let’s start with the Sheet Metal Style Defaults. Inventor’s sheet metal environment is not much different as it is the sheet metal styles that act as the recipe dictating the resultant flat pattern. When you bake a cake, make a pie, or cook a souffle you follow a recipe and the recipe dictates the final result.