Edit Sheet Metal Material Gauge

While creating the base flange from the base flange propertymanager.

Edit sheet metal material gauge.

For example 18 gauge steel according to a gauge conversion chart is 0 0478 inch or 1 214 millimeter. 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. Access the style and standard. 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.

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin flat pieces. 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. You can access the sheet metal gauge bend table. Thicknesses can vary significantly.

Extremely thin sheets are considered foil or leaf and pieces thicker than 6 mm 0 25 in are considered. You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule. 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. A gauge conversion chart can be used to determine the actual thickness of sheet metal in inches or millimeters.

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 also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule. The equivalent thicknesses differ for each gauge size standard which were developed based on the weight of the sheet for a given material.