Solidworks Sheet Metal Start With Flat Pattern

All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened 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. In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which.

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. 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. In the featuremanager design tree.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. 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. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. 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.

All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened 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. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features.

This is true for all solid body geometry as well as sheet metal designs. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. I m just wondering if there is a tool in solidworks that can enable me to do this or a macro i can implement. 1 sketches created in the folded state can have an equivalent transformed sketch in the flat pattern state.

Hunter hinson dec 31 2018 10 24 am. To create a flat pattern configuration. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. In a sheet metal part create a new configuration.