Autodesk Inventor Sheet Metal Styles

Share your knowledge ask questions and explore popular inventor topics.

Autodesk inventor sheet metal styles.

Does anyone know where i can get sheet metal styles such as diamond pattern or durbar pattern. Some guidelines to keep in mind when importing and exporting styles. You can use import and export to copy styles between documents. Each time i start a new sheet metal part i have to specify a new style.

In legacy sheet metal styles material style and thickness values were predefined and controlled by the selection of a given sheet metal style. Sheet metal styles include gage or sheet thickness as well as definitions for bends corners alternative flat pattern representations and unfolding preferences. Select an existing sheet metal rule to display its option settings. I am new cad inventor and this group.

In r2010 this convention is still utilized allowing sheet metal rules to drive the definition of material styles and thickness values as well as the sheet metal unfold rules. When i look at help it leads me to believe that it should save new sheet metal styles from one part to the next. When bending metal the material deforms both elongating on the outside and going into compression on the inside of the bend. Inventor forum sheet metal styles.

No active link can be made to an exported style. The unfold rule defines how your sheet metal model unfolds as in what is the amount of correction to account for the deformation of the material. Autodesk inventor provides three. Click the expand collapse to the left of the sheet metal rule entry in the left hand portion of the style and standard editor dialog box to display the list of existing rules.

Back return to the previously edited style. Sheet metal styles include gage or sheet thickness as well as definitions for bends corners alternative flat pattern representations. Welcome to autodesk s inventor forums. Sharing styles by importing and exporting is different from using a style library to share styles.

The style is exported in a special styxml file which is then imported into another autodesk inventor document. Style libraries are a common source of styles for all documents in a design project. Im happy to use decal patterns but. You are prompted to save the previous edits.

Last part i designed i defined several styles hoping. I appreciate any help.