Solidworks Sheet Metal Start With Flat Pattern

The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part.

Solidworks sheet metal start with flat pattern.

Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which. Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the folded and the flat pattern states fig. 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. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part.

Hunter hinson dec 31 2018 10 24 am. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. To ensure that all features are shown in a flat pattern you should create the flat pattern configuration after the entire design pattern of the part is complete. 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.

1 sketches created in the folded state can have an equivalent transformed sketch in the flat pattern state. This is true for all solid body geometry as well as sheet metal designs. I m just wondering if there is a tool in solidworks that can enable me to do this or a macro i can implement. 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.

Select process bends and all of the features after it. In the featuremanager design tree. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress.

All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. With sheet metal designs when you have more than one body solidworks will create separate flat patterns and cut lists on. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features.

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. 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. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part.