Further Tools (3-D SM)

Sheet Metal > Further Tools

HiCAD Sheet Metal provides you with libraries containing a wide variety of tools for processing sheets. You can use the catalogue editor to enhance these libraries to include your own punches. Furthermore, you can enter cyphers or texts for embossing. Moulds provide you, for example, with swaging humps, centring bosses and extruded threads. You can create cross-breaks to increase the load bearing capacity of sheets. These functions are contained in the Further Tools function group.

If you right-click a sheet, the tools appear in a context menu.

Sheet Metal > Further Tools
	Punch		Mould
	Emboss		Crossbr.

3-D Standard > Standard Processings
	Lettering	This function cannot only be applied to sheet metal parts, but to all 3-D parts. It is therefore located in the Standard Processings function group of the 3-D Standard tab. (Bore < Lettering).

You use the catalogue editor to define the parameters, the fitting priority and the material selection. Please read the information in the Online Help chapter for the Catalogue Editor (CATEDITOR.EXE in the HiCAD EXE directory).

Invalid or replaced standards are identified in the selection window by the symbol.

Standard parts which are highlighted yellow-green in the right selection window are linked to HELiOS part master attributes via the Catalogue Editor (CATEDITOR.EXE). For further information, please refer to the Online Help for the Catalogue Editor.