Sheet metal error: "Could not find the bend table."

[TheFerruccio]

I am going through the sheet metal tutorial, and, upon making the first Base Flange, when I press the check box, it refuses to apply the feature, with a pop up window coming from the main [-] of the design tree, saying:

Rebuild Errors
Could not find the bend table.
Please select another or
specify a K-factor.


I did a Google search for this, and only found one other person having a similar phrased error, but it was for something else and did not apply to my situation. Does anyone know what is going on?

 

[JMirisola]

Go to Tools->Options->File Locations and choose Bend Tables from the drop down and make sure it's pointing to the folder that contains your bend tables.

Jeff Mirisola
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[TheFerruccio]

The file location specified is in the folder "english." This folder contains the folder "Sheetmetal Bend Tables." Should it specify the actual bend table folder, or should it remain one directory above?

 

[JMirisola]

No, that's the correct directory. Are you using a gauge table? If you change it to K-factor, does it work?

Jeff Mirisola
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[TheFerruccio]

It looks like it started working now. It works when I use the K-Factor MM gauge table. Then, when I switched back to what I was originally doing, it works without a gauge table. That is very odd! I wonder if using the gauge table for the first time resulted in loading up all the other relevant tables... I basically "turned it on, then turned it off again" and it solved the problem. It sounds like I found some kind of bug in the software.

 

[TheFerruccio]

Honestly, I am getting some really strange errors that the tutorial is not describing at all. I am starting to think that my files are somehow messed up with the sheet metal package. That is disappointing, but I know that I am following this tutorial exactly, and I cannot fix this whatsoever. I keep getting errors that say things like "The radius/thickness ratio of this bend fell outside the current table. The default K factor will be applied instead."

I just do not have the right tables. I thought it would be pointing to the right place. What should my default table even look like?

 

[JMirisola]

Try running a repair on your install. By default, everything you need to run the tutorials should be loaded during your initial install. Running the repair might give SolidWorks the smack upside its head that it needs to think clearly.

Jeff Mirisola
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[TheFerruccio]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have a feeling that I needed to "kick" things into working. After my initial attempt to get things working did not work out that well, I rebuilt the part from scratch, and everything started working. I do not think I did anything differently, but I was not encountering the errors that I was initially encountering.