Building the Foundation of the Design - Autodesk Inventor 2010: No Experience Required - page 74

FIGURE 2.21 The Sheet Metal Defaults dialog box
You don't establish the rules of your sheet metal components here (you do
that in the Style and Standard Editor); you select which rule will be used and, if
you like, choose to override portions of the rule. Here's an overview:
Sheet Metal Rule This fl y-out lets you select which existing sheet metal rule
you want to use.
Use Thickness from Rule Deselect this check box, and you'll be able to override
the default thickness of the selected sheet metal rule.
Material Style This pull-down shows a list of the materials available in the
standard and allows you to select one that is different from the material speci-
fi ed in the sheet metal rule.
Unfold Rule As with the Material Style pull-down, Unfolding Rule is an override
option to the active rule and lets you switch the unfold method from the default.
Creating a New Sheet Metal Rule
In this exercise, I'll introduce you to the tool that will defi ne the rules you'll use
for future exercises:
1. Select the Sheet Metal Defaults tool in the Setup panel on the Sheet
Metal tab. Doing so opens the Sheet Metal Default dialog shown in
Figure 2.21.
In the next stage of the exercise, you'll use the Style and Standard
Editor to defi ne new values for the rule. First, let's examine this tool.
2. Select the Edit Sheet Metal Rule to open the Style and Standard Editor.