Edit an Imported Sheet-Metal Model
Sheet-Metal Design
General
- See importing a part as a sheet metal part: Import a Part as a Sheet Metal Part - Repair the Part.
- See how parts of an assembly with profile-like parts imported into Vertex are converted to sheet metal parts: Convert to Sheet-Metal Part.
- See importing a part to Vertex in general: Import a File to Vertex.
- Corrects the geometry imported into Vertex into a form that allows the model to be edited and/or the modeling to be continued with the Vertex G4 software's functions. Healing Acis Geometry of a Part Model.
Prerequisites for making an imported part into an sheet metal part that can be flattened
- The surface chain is tangential, i.e. there are no sharp corners between the bends of the part.
- The part's thickness is constant.
- The surfaces of the part can be flattened, i.e. the model does not have double-curved surfaces, such as spherical or torus surfaces.
Import a sheet-like part as a sheet metal part
- The imported model may have been modeled with a different sheet thickness than the one from which it is eventually manufactured, or a part has sections of different thickness or a part is missing roundings.
- See the instructions Import a Part as a Sheet Metal Part - Repair the Part.
Change the thickness of an imported sheet metal part
- Use the Tangential Offset function. See Tangential Offset
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Converting Bends into Bend Features
If the corners of the bends in the imported part are sharp, but the sheet is otherwise suitable as a sheet metal part (see above under prerequisites...), then you can proceed as follows.
- Convert the part into sheet metal part unless you already imported it as a sheet metal part.
- Context-sensitive function: Properties.
- Change the type Sheet Metal.
- See: Sheet Metal Part Properties
- Add roundings to the corners of the sheet metal part with the function Sheet Metal Part | Tools
Add Bend Radius.
- See: Add Bend Radius.
Change a Feature
You can replace a hole or indentation in a sheet model with a Vertex library feature.
- See Change a Feature
Editing a Base Feature
You can edit a base feature of an imported model using the following functions: