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Sheet Metal

This section applies to the Sheet Metal process group.

Geometry or Cost Engine Changes that Could Impact Configured Digital Factories

The following changes might impact costing, even for Digital Factories that use earlier cost model versions.

  • NO IMPACT

Bug Fixes or Small Improvements to Prior Cost Model Versions

The following changes might impact costing for Digital Factories that use earlier cost model versions.

  • NO IMPACT

Cost Model Changes that Do Not Affect Configured Digital Factories

The following changes do not affect costings with Digital Factories that use earlier cost model versions. The changes are available only in the latest cost model version.

  • Stock Thickness Design Guidance: Previously, a stock in the Sheet Metal Process Group was identified as nonstandard or custom if its thickness differed from those defined as available material in the Digital Factory. This meant that Design Guidance might flag common industry standard thicknesses as custom, if the Digital Factory did not hold that stock in inventory. This release introduces a new lookup table, metalStandardStocks, which contains a wider range of industry standard thicknesses. A stock now will be identified as custom only if the stock is in neither the Digital Factory material stock tables nor the new lookup table. Some stock sizes previously flagged as custom no longer will be flagged as custom in Design Guidance.

    Note, however, that a stock will be determined as virtual if it is not present in the Digital Factory material stock tables even if the thickness is included in the lookup table. Thicknesses listed in the new metalStandardStocks lookup table, but absent from the Digital Factory material tables, will be classified as virtual and incur virtual stock pricing. If the specific price of that stock is known, it should be added to the Digital Factory material stocks table.