Sheet metal

Drawing of any sheet metal contour with a polyline with arbitrary wall thickness and inner and outer radius. The sheet metal contours are adjustable via double-click or via moving the grips.

Up to 3 customised queries can be defined.

Enter the parameters into this dialog box and define the first point by clicking into your drawing. It could be helpful to use OSNAP.

The coordinates of the second point can be determined by using relative coordinate input (@) or by clicking onto a point in your drawing. Define a third point afterwards to determine the direction for drawing the wall thickness of the sheet metal.

Procedure analogously to membrane.

The preferred values for radius and thickness can be defined in the dialog box SYSCAD-Variable / Attachment-Details / Sheet for each sheet metal type.

Sandwich panel:

Draw a sheet  the inner or outer sheet contour of the sandwich panel with the correct thickness with the normal SHEET command. In this example 0.5mm

Command:

Choose sheet: Click onto the sheet

Point for direction or ENTER for OK: Click with the left mouse button to change the direction

Automatic measurement of the sheets:

Three variants are available for this purpose.

"Sheet dimensioning" command

Command "Sheet dimensioning complete"

"Sheet dimensioning inside" command

Activate the command and click on the desired sheet. Then select the side on which the sheet is to be dimensioned. With the left mouse button the selection changes. This side is then dimensioned with the right button.

If necessary, move the dimensions using the AutoCAD/BricsCAD handles of the dimension objects.

Sheet sharp-edged:

This command creates a sharp-edged auxiliary contour of the selected sheet metal . The so created contour can be used for easy dimensioning of the sheet metal without the object snap function "assumed intersection point". This object snap is not available anymore from AutoCAD 2007 for ARX objects consisting of polylines.

Sheet developed view:

Using this command, you get the sheet development (outer surface) of the sheet metal with the defined length. Activate the command and click onto the sheet metal.

The outer surface (developed view) is calculated by means of the stretched lengt. The calculation with neutral axis is not used yet.

Connecting sheets:

You can join two sheet metals. To do so, activate the function "Sheet join" and click onto the two sheet metals you want to join. The function will join those ends of the sheet metals lying near the selection points. The properties of the sheet metal chosen first are decisive and will be applied to the second sheet metal.

Separate sheets:

Separate sheets by first clicking the sheet and then the desired separation pointusing the "Separate sheet" function .

Sheet surface:

This command automatically draws a polyline of the fold line of a sheet metal. Activate the command and click onto the sheet metal. Use the left mouse button to activate the required side of the sheet metal. Confirm your selection with a right mouse click.

perforated sheet metal:

This option is available to create rectangular or circular patterns in a closed contour in the same way as a hatch.

Projection of sheet metal edges (Until version 2024):

You can use this command to automatically draw the side view (from the left) or the top view (from below) of sheets. Activate the command command and select the vertical elements of the desired sheet metal. Confirm this selection and select the horizontal elements, a line or 2 points. The projection is then drawn.

You can change the display under SYSCAD variables / Attachment details / Sheet.

Projection of sheet metal edges (from version 2025):

Sheet metal from polyline:

With the function "Sheet from polyline" you create sheets from the line segments of a polyline. .

Offset sheet:

With the function "Offset sheet" you create sheets as a duplication of existing sheets or foils. .

Enter the desired distance in the following dialogue box. Move the virtually displayed contour to the desired side of the sheet with the left mouse button and confirm with the right mouse button. Now you can draw the sheet contour on any side of the virtual contour using the red arrow. Define the sheet metal contour in the dialogue box that now appears.

Define sheet material:

Command: "Open Config Files

Ribbon -> SYSCAD20XX -> Config

The "Insert point" command is used to insert additional definition points. The command "Delete point" deletes vertexes in the selection window.