SmConvert

Platinum Platinum Platinum

Automatically recognizes flanges and bends in a 3D solid.

Accessing the Command

command bar: smconvert

menu bar: Sheet Metal | Convert to Sheet Metal

toolbar: Sheet Metal |

: smconvert

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select 3D solids / <Entire model>: (Select a 3D Solid.)

Entities in set: 1

Select 3D solids: (Select a 3D Solid or right click.)

Command Options

Option

Description

Entire model

All solids in the entire model are analyzed and, if possible, converted to Sheet Metal bodies. The command recognizes sheet metal features &endash; such as flanges and bends &endash; in the input geometry. The body thickness of the sheet metal drawing is the criterium in case multiple solids are selected. Therefore selected bodies must have the same thickness, else an error message displays in the command window: "Could not convert the 3D solid to sheet metal. Recognized thickness is not equal the thickness of document: 5.000000 != 7.000000."

Related Commands

SmDelete - removes a bend or a junction by restoring a hard edge between two flanges; removes a flange with all the bends adjacent to it. The adjacent flanges are extended up to a junction configuration with the flange being deleted.

SmDissolve - removes sheet metal data from the selected faces.

SmFlangeBase - creates a base (initial) flange of a sheet metal part from a closed planar profile.

SmRethicken - restores the 3D solid model of a sheet metal part by thickening one of its sides (all thickness faces become perpendicular to flange faces).