Automatically define the bending radius according to the thickness of the sheet metal

3D Design Sheet Metal / Machine Welded
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Hi all

I would like to know how to automatically define the bending radius according to the thickness of the sheet.
We work with a bending zone table, but we always use the same radius depending on the thickness of the sheet.
That's why I wondered if there wasn't something that existed to freeze the bending radius once and for all and not systematically enter it each time a sheet metal part was created or to modify it in the case of multibody parts.

This would also prevent errors from the wrong radius

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Hello treza88;
A screenshot and SW version that you used would be nice.
For my part, unless I'm mistaken, if you work with parts in the same thickness, the last value remains.
Here is what I just found on the forum=>https://forum.mycad.visiativ.com/t/solidworks-valeur-des-rayons-de-pliage-automatique/94893/4
piece_tolerie.zip (23.3 KB)

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AR.

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Hello;

In theory, this is possible via the material tab;
https://help.solidworks.com/2022/french/Solidworks/sldworks/t_material_db_sheet_metal_tab.htm?rid=183648
https://help.solidworks.com/2022/french/Solidworks/sldworks/t_linking_materials_and_sheet_metal_parameters.htm
All of this is correctly associated with a table for calculating the folds...

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Hello
To illustrate a little more...
sheetmetal material

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