Solidworks Save Bodies Sheet Metal

Click exit flatten in the confirmation corner.

Solidworks save bodies sheet metal.

Right click in the graphics area and click exit flatten. The new part name appears under file and in the callout box. It can directly export the dxf files for any presses it creates automatic bounding boxes for length width and thickness and i run a macro which quickly renames the descriptions of those parts to what we expect from our structural or chute detailers generally pl thk by width. Solidworks multibody part functionality lets you work with several bodies in one part to create complex sheet metal designs.

Click flatten sheet metal toolbar. I used the save bodies command with the create assembly. A coworker built a multi body part consisting of 16 bodies. This assembly needs a lot of modifications from time to time.

In either the featuremanager design tree or the cut list do one. Right clicking on these gets you into the body properties. You can use these body related properties in boms and drawings. The bodies that you do not save are not split.

It should have been done using assemblies with mating. Each body has its own sheet metal and material definition flat pattern and custom properties. Right click the flat pattern feature for the part and click suppress. When you create a multi body sheet metal part there are sheet metal properties for the individual bodies and global properties for the file.

Multibody sheet metal parts can consist of multiple sheet metal bodies or a combination of sheet metal and other bodies such as weldment bodies. In the cut list right click the body and click exit flatten.