Solidworks Sheet Metal Start With Flat Pattern

Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the folded and the flat pattern states fig.

Solidworks sheet metal start with flat pattern.

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. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. 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. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded 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. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which.

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. I m just wondering if there is a tool in solidworks that can enable me to do this or a macro i can implement. Select process bends and all of the features after it. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. 1 sketches created in the folded state can have an equivalent transformed sketch in the flat pattern state. In a sheet metal part create a new configuration.

With sheet metal designs when you have more than one body solidworks will create separate flat patterns and cut lists on. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. 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. This is true for all solid body geometry as well as sheet metal designs.

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. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. Hunter hinson dec 31 2018 10 24 am.