There has GOT to be someone out there who can point me in the right direction!!!
I am designing a trailer and there are 3 or 4 different types of tubing being used. All of the tubes must be bent at the same position to create and angled slope at the back. I am able to do this without issue.....until I get to my cut list. Solidworks appears to be creating a bounding box to populate these dimensions.
What I need is to be able to provide the guys the correct length of tube prior to bending. How can I achieve this! I obviously do not want to manipulate the cut list properties manually because when I create another part file in a different length, I need to then go into each tube again to manipulate the lengths to accommodate the new trailer length.
Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated!!
How did you create the bent tubing? If you created it as a weldment using the Structural Member function then the total length would be automatically created as the cut list property "LENGTH". If you created it as a simple Sweep instead then you should be able to edit the path sketch, adding a Path Length dimension (selecting all the lines and arcs) that's driven by the other dimensions, and use that for a custom property or cut list property.