I know this may be a silly question......but. We use a lot of multibody sheet metal parts which is a great advantage but after saving out the parts, each part has to then be converted back into sheet metal. This takes time and is another chance for human errors to occur (having to input thickness, bend radius and bend deductions again). Anyone else have this problem? Thanks, Chris
I don't think that is a silly question at all Chris. Sure seems like there should be a way to save out the body and retain the sheet metal info. Of course you can still put your sheet metal bodies in a drawing and also dxf (or whatever method you use) out to flat patterns from the multibody environment but I'm sure there are occasions when you just want separate parts that have the sheet metal functionality and don't want to convert (again). I had never thought of this as much of an issue until recently. I have an 81 body part and 13 of those are sheet metal. My multi body part is full scale but I want to end up with parts that are 1/60th scale. In my case it is almost desirable to loose the sheet metal info since the scale has to be done prior to any sheet metal features. In case you wonder, my multibody sheet metal parts are 60x thickness and radius. In any case it got me, just like you, wondering why.