Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing Flat Pattern

To create a drawing of a flat pattern.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing flat pattern.

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 before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. Select process bends and all of the features after it.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. Follow simple steps to learn. 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.

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. Solidworks has supported sheet metal multi body parts for the last two releases but that still came as a pleasant surprise for me.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing. Article by alin vargatu cswe updated december 13 2011. Flat pattern views for sheet metal multi body parts.

Wrong flat pattern in view palette. In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. The advantages are huge and clear you can design all your sheet metal components in the context of one part generate a handy cut list and sprinkle the drawings with nice balloons like in assemblies.

From the view palette drag the flat pattern.