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Linking Materials and Sheet Metal Parameters in SOLIDWORKS

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Sheet Metal features in SOLIDWORKS have always been user-friendly. They’ve always been consistent. Also, whenever there is an enhancement to the core Sheet Metal Features, it’s always something useful. Materials in Sheet Metal are extremely important. If you are choosing between building a part out of Aluminum or Stainless Steel – you aren’t just choosing a material. You’re choosing tooling, bend radius values, and a plethora of other design requirements that are unique to your company. SOLIDWORKS  now allows you to link typical Sheet Metal Parameters to any custom material, so you can use those parameters again and again. To link a parameter to a Custom Material to a Sheet Metal part, all you have to do is edit that Material – and expand to the Sheet Metal tab. When you assign a custom material to a sheet metal part, you can link the sheet metal   parameters to the material. If you change the material, the sheet metal parameters also   update. To link materials and sheet...

Breakdown the Challenges in Sheetmetal Products Design Using SolidWorks Solutions

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Sheetmetal  Product Design SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD allows you to quickly create sheet metal part designs using simple design tools, saving you time and development costs. In this blog, you can learn the various methods and benefits of utilizing Sheetmetal Design Tools. Three Ways to Start your Sheetmetal Design •Design Sheetmetal from 2D Drawing •Design Sheetmetal from Solid •Design Sheetmetal using Standard Tools Design Sheetmetal from 2D Drawing Dwg/DXF Input 3D Model Blank Development Design Sheetmetal from Solid SolidModel Convert to Sheetmetal Blank Development Design Sheetmetal using Standard Tools Sheetmetal Model Blank Development Fabrication Drawing Design Automation Tools for Repetitive Tasks Automate repetitive task by simply capturing the driven variables and control it using a simple form like structure. To create new and variants in products you just need to specify the r...

How Engineering Product Data Management plays vital role in Sheet Metal Industry ?

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Product Data Management Product Anything that you design, develop, manufacture and make profit out of it. Data Files related to product design, development, manufacturing and process info. Management Organizing the product & process info. Conquering the key challenges faced related to design data management area. Taking the process towards the destination with the flow. Key challenges faced by the sheet metal industry related to engineering data management Security of intellectual property. Data leakage, deletion, modified. Data Duplication. Track & Locating legacy design data. Version management. Redundancy due to old revision in the shop floor. Errors,time consumption,chaos due to manual Engineering Change Management. Tons of drawing hard copies, ledgers, files, documentation requires space and individual to maintain it. Pending of design approvals due to absence of authority. Open access of design info to all stakeholders. Control...