Sheet Metal Enhancements

Punch Representation Visibility

New options let you control the individual punch representation display.

The following Flat Pattern Overrides are added to the PunchTool dialog:

• Show Formed Punch Feature
• Show Sketch Representation
  Note: The Sheet Metal Punch iFeature must be defined with a simplified sketch representation in order to use this option.
• Show Center Mark

Ignore Flat Pattern Overrides is added as an option to the Punch Representation tab of the Flat Pattern edit dialog.

Note:

A punch tool whose shape extends beyond the boundary of the flat pattern can now have its definition overridden to display as a center mark or sketch without error.

A legacy flat pattern punch override continues to display an error until the flat pattern is deleted and recreated in Inventor 2017.

For more information, see To Punch Shape into Sheet Metal Face.

Corner Relief

The options Round (Tangent), Round (Vertex), and Square (Vertex) are added to corner reliefs to provide more placement solutions.

For more information, see Corner Seam Edit Dialog Reference.

Flat Pattern Compute Errors

A flat pattern that has compute errors displays an information icon in the browser and participates in the Design Doctor.

For more information, see To Work with Flat Pattern in Sheet Metal.

Unfold iFeatures

The option Unfold in Flat Pattern is added to the Extract iFeature create dialog and to the PunchTool insert dialog. This new option lets you unfold certain types of punch features. You must specify the unfold option in both places to unfold the punch shape.

• Unfolding is limited to iFeatures that can be unfolded if they were created as normal sheet metal features.
• Deformed shapes, such as stamped bosses and louvers, cannot be unfolded.

For more information, see To Work with iFeatures.

Enhancements to Sheet Metal Dialog Boxes

The following dialog boxes contain new features:

• An Apply button is added to the Corner Round and Corner Chamfer dialog boxes to improve efficiency.
• The Corner Round dialog box is now resizable and persists throughout your session.

Defer Flat Pattern Update

• The Flat Pattern Compute option is added to the Modeling tab of the Document Settings dialog box.
• Defer Update on Flat Pattern is added to the File Open Options.
  
• You can also right-click the Flat Pattern on the browser to defer the update.
  

Direct Edit

The Direct Edit command is added to the Sheet Metal Modify ribbon panel.