What's New

This section describes recent changes in Sheet Metal for Hydro-formed Parts.

R2022x GA

Limiting Geometry Enhancements for All Swept Walls Commands
When creating any kind of swept wall (flanges, hems, tear drops, and user flanges), you have more options when defining relimitations:
  • Define different offsets to the left and to the right side of the input spine.
  • Swap the left and right sides of the input spine.
  • Specify one limit only.

For more information, see Relimitation.

Benefits: Points, planes, or surfaces are no longer your only options to define the left and right limits of the input spine. Furthermore, both limits are no longer mandatory. This improves the user experience.
New Option for the Standard Cutout and Pocket Commands
You can now select the Optimize Geometry option when creating standard cutouts or pocket cutouts .

For more information, see Creating Cutouts.

Benefits: Optimizing the geometry improves the result of the cutout or pocket, by taking into consideration impacts on both the top and bottom faces. Let's take the example of a pipe going through the sheet metal body, and let's consider that the extrusion for the pipe is based on the sketch used as profile for the cutout.

Without the Optimize Geometry option, you may encounter overlapping issues when creating the cutout with only the Top or Bottom option.

Cutout with an impact on the top face, without Optimize Geometry selected

With the Optimize Geometry option, you can avoid overlapping.

Same cutout with Optimize Geometry selected

When you select Optimize Geometry, you can also specify a gap between the input surface and the cutout result.

Same cutout with Optimize Geometry selected, and Gap specified

Removal of legacy appearance of dialog boxes

You can no longer open dialog boxes with the legacy appearance. Therefore, the Open dialog boxes with legacy appearance option is removed from Me > Preferences

Benefits: You can now access directly dialog boxes with the new display.