Edit Sheet Metal Material Gauge

Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered.

Edit sheet metal material gauge.

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule. After creating the base flange by right clicking sheet metal in the featuremanager design tree and selecting edit feature. For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter.

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. You can access the sheet metal gauge bend table. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters. We can also take one sheet metal gauge table and save as to create a new gauge table for a new material.

Access the style and standard. 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. Remember that we can always add information to an existing solidworks sheet metal gauge table by editing the excel spreadsheet including new gauge sizes and new bend radius values. Thicknesses can vary significantly.

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. 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. 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.