Retrieve sheet metal surface in configuration-specific properties

3D Design Sheet Metal / Machine Welded
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Thank you for your answer. It's a good start.

But my final goal is to be able to create a bill of materials on the assembly and to easily extract the material requirements through a macro.

Total surface area of thickness A and grade X sheet metal

Total surface area of plate of thickness B and grade Y

Total surface area of thickness C and Z grade sheet

However, I can't get all the necessary information on a single line.

The marker sheet 1 is on a line, but by default SolidWorks is in multibody and I therefore find my sheet metal information on the lower "child" line, not practical at all...


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Watch my tutorial. 


tuto.docx
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That's exactly what I would like to do but SolidWorks doesn't offer me to choose "Properties of the welded part line"...

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In my case, the "Raw sheet wall surface" property is only available through the "Custom property" column type. And I have no value in return.

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If they are only "poor sheets" they must be converted into sheet metal and the menu is available. I don't understand why it only works like that!!

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Convert what?

But parts are already sheet metal parts.

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So do see a right-click on welded parts lists and then see if you have the little checkmark in front of Create a welded parts list and update automatically. See PJ

Which version are you on???


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My model is already set by default this way.

I'm using the 2017 version.

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Can you put me a screen print of your creation tree?

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No worries.

 


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There is also the possibility via the mycad tools to retrieve properties of the sheet metal via smartproperties (I get the max length and max width of a sheet metal side by this means)

As you have access to these third-party tools, it's up to you to see the easiest solution for you.

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When you right-click on Welded parts list article1, do you have the summary of the list as in the attachment???


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Yes.


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In the "Table of welded parts" tab I have this: See PJ n°2


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Try to see with my nomenclature to see what it looks like...


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I don't get the info either with your nomenclature, there must be a difference in the model of part or assembly.

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With your BOM template I get the same result as in your tutorial by making the BOM on a part. But like you, my result is on two lines.

When carrying out your bill of materials on an assembly, I have no return values for the parameter "Raw sheet metal sidewall area".
 

 

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I don't know if it is possible to display the properties of a part body in an assembly BOM.

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I think the easiest solution would be to make a note as shown at the beginning of the post and link this note to a custom property that you can retrieve in your nomenclature.

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That's why I originally tried to find this property in the properties of my part without having to make a nomenclature.