Solidworks Sheet Metal Start With Flat Pattern

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration.

Solidworks sheet metal start with flat pattern.

Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. This is true for all solid body geometry as well as sheet metal designs. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. In a sheet metal part create a new configuration.

Hunter hinson dec 31 2018 10 24 am. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. Select process bends and all of the features after it. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part.

In the last few years he moved to ts working closely with vars mario wrote the sheet metal functionality best practice manual as well as creating hundreds of sheet metal knowledge base articles. As shown in the figure below the flat pattern view is the same as the front view and shows the part in a bent state. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the folded and the flat pattern states fig.

With sheet metal designs when you have more than one body solidworks will create separate flat patterns and cut lists on. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which.

Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. To create a flat pattern configuration.

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. I m trying to batch export multiple sheet metal flat patterns of an assembly to dxfs instead of opening and saving as each individual parts. When the flat pattern drawing view of a solidworks sheet metal part displays the part in the bent condition this can indicate an issue with the suppression state of the flat pattern feature. In the featuremanager design tree.