Multi-body Multi Styles Sheet Metal

[@IlusysSystems]

You could do this even in earlier versions. Only thing is that you had to be careful when making solids so they have uniform thickness, then make components and chose sheet metal template, set thickness if necessary and make a flat pattern from multibody part. I mean that flat pattern is looking only if there is uniform(more or less) thickness, and it does not care what features you used.

[@Neil3D]

You could do multi-body sheet metal but only with a uniform thickness? OK thanks for letting me know, I don't keep earlier versions on my system so I didn't go back and check. Ah well, it doesn't change anything for anyone who needs to use this, if there's an inaccuracy in a statement regarding a now old version I'll just leave it and pin this for peoples reference! Cheers for pointing that out.

[@IlusysSystems]

I mean you can have different thicknesses in one part. It has to be standart part. Only each body has to have "uniform thickness" that means that it has to have series of faces that are at some uniform distance apart. they can be even "bended". then after exporting solids you can do flat pattern. But this improvement in 2018 is good so you can use features, that make it working with sheet metals much easier

[@PeteBrubaker]

In 2017 you could have multi body sheet metal parts, and use the make components and get multiple flat patterns. I don't recall if the different bodies could follow a different sheet metal rule though. It didn't matter for what I was doing, it was all the same thickness.

[@Chardin112]

That part is only change, that You can have now different styles/thicknesses

[@robbbarrett6430]

Fantastic Timing Neil ,you saved me from a particularly annoying Git on Antiques Road Show explaining the fantastic value of a particularly Naff poncy wax seal . So I thank you for releasing a brand new TFI and stopping me shouting at the TV .Cheers R

[@Kirch93]

Awesome. I have been doing conveyor side panels as multi body parts in 2016/17 by creating it as one part, splitting it into 3m max sections and then taking them into an assembly. But being able to use more than one style is handy

[@cikayu6163]

Good info. May i know, what is the difference by using this method and sketch each parts in assembly using create components?

[@jacmifishe]

This will definitely be a better workflow than what I do now. Currently I use a sheet metal features than convert to a solid part so I can split into multi bodies.

[@matthewfuchs5717]

Love the videos, thanks for all the help! Quick question, is there a way to do rivets for joining sheet metal in Inventor?

[@voldermost20]

how to control material thickness in ilogic ? help me please

[@dogbadjaze600]

Could you make a full tutorial on ILOGIC 2018, please? I would like to general various naca airfoil using ILOGIC. I need some help, please.

[@gajeeshk]

Hii can you explain how to make a cylindrical part with different thickness in every 20 or 30 degree interval. That means I nead 3 mm thick sheet from 0 to 30 degree and 2 mm thick from 30 to 60 degree then 1 mm thick from 60 to 90 degree . Important thing is I want this as a single part and I need to get flat pan of that part. I need to make a component which we called isogrid panels. Please reply if it is possible to do it in inventor professional.

[@markrichard5413]

Can you mirror a sheet metal part and get a flat in a Multi-body Styles Sheet metal part?

[@markrichard5413]

Can you mirror a sheet metal part (Make a hole or slot in that mirrored part) and get a flat in a Multi-body Styles Sheet metal part?

[@jerryberns430]

I just tried making a multi-body part with multiple sheet metal rules. One rule was set to aluminum material and the other rule was set to brass. When I create the bodies using the different rules, the thickness is different, but the material appearance is the same. In the Solid Bodies folder, each body is reporting the use of a different sheet metal rule, but the material appears identical. I have checked the rules to ensure the material is set correctly. Have you tried different materials? What is your result?

[@mikehodson7220]

So let's say you make a multi body part, then turn it into an assembly. Now put that assembly into another assembly. What happens when you want to make top-down changes? IIRC, you can't make in-places changes to the derived assembly (or can you?). Would it be better to insert the multi-body part into the larger assembly, or insert the derived assembly? And how does that affect the BOM? I tried it with 2017, and eventually said Fuck it...and went back to single body parts.

[@carlosalvarez8076]

Trump land? jajajaja you make my day.

[@danseman51]

well I think I might just skip 2017 altogether

[@jeanchile9117]

Ya' know Neil... Most of us "across the pond" are already embarrassed enough without you calling our country "The United States of Trumpland" ;-).