Fortunately the shell command has such a debugging tool.
Convert to sheet metal unable to thicken the surface.
Sheetmetal surface need to thicken this is the beauty of being able to work in the flat with extrudes while in sheetmetal mode.
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If an edge already has a fillet applied the radius of the fillet is used as the bend radius for the new sheet metal part.
2 convert imported solids into inventor objects 3 set the sheet metal thickness to match the part steps.
When thicken fails 1.
Hey all after playing around with the degree and tangent length settings i was able to thicken it.
Under thicken parameters do the following.
In the evaluate tab look at the curvature of the face the primary reason for the thicken feature failing is that the curvature is too sharp to actually produce an offset in these cases.
1 convert to single solid 2 get surfaces from the geometry 3 remove solids 4 thicken the surface 5 set sheet metal thickness 6 create flat pattern.
See if offset surface works if it does you can manually complete the thicken feature usually when thicken fails offset will fails 2.
Click thicken on the features toolbar or click insert boss base thicken.
Phillip mobley phillip mobley on may 20 2016 9 56 am.
According to the curvature i a should be in the all clear.
Examine the preview and select the side of the surface you want to thicken as shown below.
It is too bad that no such troubleshooting tool has been included in the offset or thicken surface commands.
The program is unable to thicken the surface.
I can optimize the punch setup by having long shear lengths and only 1 angle square punch.
In the graphics area select a surface to thicken.