Solid Edge Family of Parts published members have wrong flatten when defining different sheet metal gages

The user creates a sheet metal part and then defines a Family of Parts (FOP). The Neutral Factor is .33 for the Master in this example.

They then publish the members.  Subsequently, they open the individual files of the published sheet metal parts and apply different sheet metal gages (with distinct Neutral Factors). 

When they flatten the sheet metal part they notice that it is wrong, as the dimension is the same for all members even though they have different Neutral Factors (98.09 in our example shown below).

Solution

The behaviour is working as designed.

The Neutral Factor is used while creating the bend feature itself, therefore whatever value is used in bend creation will be the same as that used for the Flat Pattern.

When FOP members are published, the resulting files only contain Part Copies and not the features from the Master file - it is just geometry.  The features that use Neutral Factor as their parent only recompute on changing the Neutral Factor back in the Master file.

The various Neutral Factors need to be defined on the individual members through the variables in the members of the Master file in order for them to drive the bend features and subsequently the result of the Flat Pattern.

Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: windows
OS Version: n/a
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: PART/SHEETMETAL
Version: V221.0
Function: FAMILY_OF_PARTS

Ref: 002-8523989