Solidworks 2016 Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

Right click flat pattern in the featuremanager design tree and select export to dxf dwg.

Solidworks 2016 sheet metal flat pattern.

To create a drawing of a flat pattern. Flat pattern the flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. In the past the custom property mass of a sheet metal body referred to its folded state. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress.

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. You can also create a bounding box for any cut list item in a cut list independent of the type of solid or sheet metal bodies in the cut list item. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. The bounding box is represented by a sketch when you flatten the sheet metal part and is located in the featuremanager design tree under flat pattern. In solidworks 2016 we implemented an additional way to view the weight of a sheet metal body. Flat pattern problem in solidworks 2016.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. This new property is called flattened mass fig. The words flat pattern are prepended to the file name.

This problem didn t occure in the past only recently does anybody know what could be the cause. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Learn about a quick and easy way to automatically create a flat pattern for your sheetmetal parts in solidworks by placing a flat pattern view in a drawing.

Select process bends and all of the features after it. In the dxf dwg output propertymanager under entities to export clear bend lines to generate the dxf file without bend lines in it. 20 mar 2017 06 58 am.