Sheet Metal Settings

Overview

The Sheet Metal section in the Settings dialog box controls the different properties of Sheet Metal in BricsCAD. Properties are split into 4 groups: Commands, Feature colors, Initial parameters, and Modeling.

Note: Most of the sheet metal settings are stored in the drawing. For best results always start with one of the sheet metal template files DWT or create your own.

Commands

The Commands section contains settings that control the behavior of the various Sheet Metal commands.

Note: Before BricsCAD V19 these controls were available as options within the individual commands. They were moved to the settings dialog to simplify the command interface.

The Layers used for Sheet Metal Unfolding determine the appearance of unfolded parts.

Feature colors

The Feature colors settings visually distinguish different types of sheet metal features by color. You can adjust the colors for each feature type.

Initial parameters

These parameters are responsible for the initialization of the Sheet Metal Context associated with a drawing.

Modeling

Modeling settings control the behavior of sheet metal features. Settings are grouped by feature type.

Unfolding

Unfolding settings control the behavior of K-factor value, Form feature unfolding mode, and Bend line extent type/value.

Modeling

The Modeling settings include the SMSMARTFEATURES user preference that controls the local, intelligent update of the geometry after Sheet Metal commands are executed.