Mates and toolbox and sheet metal questions

sw2004 Sp3.0
First the mates question.
Scenario one,
If I select a side of a part and select other, click ok, hold the Ctrl key
and then select another part, then select the mates icon, the mate that I
require works.
Scenario two,
If I have the mates selection box open, select a side of a part and select
other, click ok, the selection changes from "other" to the side I first
selected !! I have tried this in several assemblies and happens all the
time. Is this a bug?

Toolbox question,
I have been playing around with adding my own parts to the toolbox and now I
want to delete the test parts. Is there a way?

Sheet metal question,
1.2mm mild steel, 100x100mm base flange, 25x25mm centred edge flange, back
stop set to 25mm, 90deg bend.
Why does the fold go all the way along the flange edge, even if the edge
flange is smaller in width than the base flange?
Using 0.8mm radius tooling and a 10mm "V", this would never happen in "real
life", as the base flange edge would just get lost in the "V"

 

Mates - don't know - I just tried it and it seems to work fine here. I
tried it a couple ways and it worked every time.

Toolbox - not a clue - don't have it.

Sheet metal - don't know - I just tried that also and it worked as expected.
One thing you might check is if you have autorelief turned on. If not, it
might try to curl the whole cross section, but that's just a thought.

WT

 

Re: Sheetmetal

Did you include your total bend allowance of 2.00406mm?

 

Pete, i have a solution for toolbox. toolbox is driven by an access
database. i have been able to open it in access 2000 for SWx 2003,
might be latest version of access in SWx 2004. there is a table in it
that is called products. this is where toolbox stores your created
parts. if you delete all non-escential rows from this table, it will
delete these instances from your testing. hope that this helps. MRW


Thinking out of the box means that you are constraining yourself to in
the box thinking. Always think beyond the box, in fact think that
there is no box. You will be supprised how far you can go.

 

Pete,

The shetemtal in SWX is just meant ot speed up design, its not a real
time FEA application. I mean that it cant understand flaring that
occurs in the real world, but its usually not necessary, if you
understand what you want and the more difficult task of understaining
what swx means you will get the best usage out of sheetmetal, speed
over (visual) accuracy is the game here, and I am glad they chose it.

My main comlaint is the way box corners must be handled in certain
situations in order to keep the part flattenable.