Select a Material Item for a Sheet Metal Part

Sheet-Metal Design

General

  • When Vertex G4 is used without Vertex Flow, the items needed for sheet metal parts can be added to the material item database for sheet metal parts (d_SMDSPEC) and supplemented with data related to the processing of sheet metal parts.
  • The material database for sheet metal parts is like an extract of the regular material database (d_COMPONENTS), which has been supplemented.
  • See item database management: Add or Edit the Item Data of a Part.

When the material selection is based on a Flow database

If you are connected to Flow, select a material item for a sheet-metal part in Flow with the Select button.
  • The material selection will also determine the plate thickness.
  • But you have to define other parameters of the sheet metal part separately, such as the stretch calculation.

When the material selection is based on a Vertex database.

When you do not have the Vertex Flow data management system, define for the part: