I use a part model dedicated to the creation of sheet metal parts.
By default, this model incorporates the following parameters: Item Code, Designation, Material, Thickness, and Flat Sheet Surface.
However, I am unable to retrieve the assessed value of the flat sheet metal surface that can be found in the welded parts list from this value: "SW-Flank surface of tôle@@@Article-parts-list-soudées1@Pièce4.SLDPRT".
If any of you have already been confronted with this problem and would have the solution or a possible solution, I am interested.
You can still find several other properties just in case and to get the links you just have to right-click on the block that has been incremented and then edit the text in the window.
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...
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
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.