Edit Sheet Metal Material Gauge

Use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to change the options and parameters defined by the selected sheet metal rule for the active sheet metal part.

Edit sheet metal material gauge.

Sheet metal is one of the fundamental forms used in metalworking and it can be cut and bent into a variety of shapes countless everyday objects are fabricated from sheet metal. While creating the base flange from the base flange propertymanager. Sheet metal gauge is based on the weight of the sheet therefore a sheet of two different materials with the same thickness may have different gauge numbers. Thicknesses can vary significantly.

You can access the sheet metal gauge bend table. After creating the base flange by right clicking sheet metal in the featuremanager design tree and selecting edit feature. Access the style and standard. We can also take one sheet metal gauge table and save as to create a new gauge table for a new material.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. Sheet metal gauge size chart gauge or gage sizes are numbers that indicate the thickness of a piece of sheet metal with a higher number referring to a thinner sheet. When working with sheet metal a gauge table in solidworks can be used to ensure the correct thickness is chosen for your selected material along with the manufacturing properties as well. Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered.

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule.