How To Save Inventor Sheet Metal Styles
If you wish to make all the sheet metal styles in the template available to all templates save them to the design data folder.
How to save inventor sheet metal styles. Copy the content of the out of the box design data folder c users public documents autodesk inventor 20xx design data to your. To add or edit a sheet metal. To specify a sheet metal material. In the style and standard editor locate the style you want to export and then right click and select export.
You use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to select a sheet metal rule. Sheet metal style defaults. This can be done by right clicking on the color dark aluminum cast and choosing save to style library. You can also select a material type unfolding rule and sheet thickness that is different from the value specified in the sheet metal rule.
Let s start with the sheet metal style defaults. Sheet metal style migration from pre r2010 files. Click manage tab styles and standards panel styles editor to open the style and standard editor dialog box. Using this dialog you set the defaults used when placing sheet metal features.
About sheet metal rules. Access the style and standard. Create and name a new sheet metal rule. Click the expand collapse to the left of the sheet metal rule entry in the left hand portion of the style and standard editor dialog box.
If in this case we only want to push this color to the library. Open up the template containing the sheet metal styles select save in the styles and standards panel. To create and select a sheet metal material. Scroll back down and find dark aluminum cast again and note that the color is located in.
In the export style definition dialog box browse to a location and enter a name for the exported. Create a backup of your design data folder. A complete breakdown of inventor styles and standards 14 this can be done two ways. On the ribbon click manage tab styles and standards panel styles editor.
Use the sheet metal defaults dialog box to change the options and parameters defined by the selected sheet metal rule for the active sheet metal part. Inventor s sheet metal environment is not much different as it is the sheet metal styles that act as the recipe dictating the resultant flat pattern. You can select which styles you will be saving or select yes to all.