Solidworks Sheet Metal Bend Lines

This toggles the visibility of sketches and if it is off the bend lines sketch will be hidden the second method i used was to expand out the flat pattern in the feature tree and find the sketch bend lines2 could be other numbers shown.

Solidworks sheet metal bend lines.

Values outside the brackets are displayed in the drawing. A quick tour and introduction using the solidworks sheet metal sketch bend feature. Click front plane and click on sketch. Use a text editor.

They can be automatically inserted into the flat pattern drawing view. The problem comes when you want to see the bend lines. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature.

Set offset distance as 0 1in. Use line sketch and connected. Use line sketch l shape. The sketches must be parallel.

This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. Solidworks how to create a simple sheet metal part in solidworks. This file sets the format of the bend line notes. How to create simple sheet metal bend 1.

Search toggling the visibility of bend lines in the solidworks knowledge base. Whatever you want to call it. These bend notes will describe the bend direction bend angle and bend radius for each bend within solidworks. Bend notes in your sheet metal part drawings are a clear way to provide the required information for manufacturing.

Click offset entities and click l sketch. The lofted bend requires two open contour profiles for it to work with no guide curves or sharp corners so there are limitations. So in a part generated with the sheet metal tools your bend lines are stored in the flat pattern feature remember that this sketch you can show hide and suppress unsuppress to control how when it is displayed. Solidworks has rules for the sketches in order to see bend lines.

The first thing that everyone needs to know is where the bend lines are. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. Values inside the brackets are the parameters that maintain associative capabilities. Dimension sketch with smart dimension as 1in x 1in.

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