Featurescript - Sheet Metal Thicken

Austin_Keet

Hello, I have a simple task. I am trying to create a sheet metal model by thickening it from a sketch in a featurescript. My FeatureScript creates the sketch correctly, however I am uncertain on how to use the sheet metal commands. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! 

MBartlett21

Call sheetMetalStart

Austin_Keet

Thanks for the reply mbartlett21. After looking through the library's sheet metal functions though I still don't understand. Where do I call sheetMetalStart? How do I do what I want to do after I call sheetMetalStart? If you have an example that would be great! 

There is "SMProcessType.THICKEN" which looks like it might be what I want? But I have no idea how to assign the value of thickness that I want.

MBartlett21

You can look up this link for the sheetMetalStart function
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/12312312345abcabcabcdeff/w/a855e4161c814f2e9ab3698a/e/d72cde0155be691657609507?jumpToIndex=3679

Callit by inserting

sheetMetalStart(context, id + "<b><i>SM_ID</i></b>", {<br>        "process" : SMProcessType.THICKEN,<br>&nbsp;       "regions" : <b><i>Sketch_Regions</i></b>,<br>&nbsp;       "thickness" : <b><i>Sm_Thickness</i></b>,<br>&nbsp;       "radius" : <b><i>Bend_Radius</i></b>,<br>&nbsp;       "kFactor" : <b><i>K_Factor</i></b>,<br>&nbsp;       "kFactorRolled" : <b><i>K_Factor_Rolled</i></b><br>    })

Austin_Keet

Thanks! Helped a lot and I have it now.

In case anyone reads this later I did have to add "bends" : qSketchRegion(id+("sketch1")~j)), in the code. Let me know if I shouldn't have inputted the sketch as the query for bends though haha
 

 sheetMetalStart(context, id + "SM_ID", {

       "process" : SMProcessType.THICKEN,

       "regions" : qSketchRegion(id + ("sketch1"~j)),
       "bends" : qSketchRegion(id + ("sketch1"~j)),

       "thickness" : thickness,

       "radius" : 0.25 * inch,

       "kFactor" : 0.5,

       "kFactorRolled" : 0.5

       });

lana

@Austin_Keet

You probably had to supply a query for bends parameter, it should not be  qSketchRegion(id + ("sketch1"~j)), even though it gets ignored. Please use qNothing() instead - it is exactly what it says it is.

Austin_Keet

@lana
Awesome, thanks lana