SmRethicken

Platinum Platinum Platinum

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

Accessing the Command

command bar:  smrethicken

menu bar:  Sheet Metal | Rethicken

toolbar:  Sheet Metal |

: smrethicken

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select a face to rethicken: (Select a face.)

Command Options

No options.

Procedures

To re-thicken a sheet metal body

Related Commands

SmConvert - automatically recognizes flanges and bends in a 3D solid.

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.