Solidworks Sheet Metal Flat View

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Solidworks sheet metal flat view.

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. 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 do one of the following. Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. You ll either end up with a flat view of your bent part or more commonly you ll wind up with a bent view of your flat pattern. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features.

Select process bends and all of the features after it. When you create a sheet metal part you have 1 configuration. This approach is great for new designs because it requires that you either start this way or convert to sheet metal. Often times we create sheet metal works of art or just really complex designs and we want the design to be clearly shown on the drawing.

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. So when the drawing view was inserted solidworks could not automatically create the configuration and set the sheet metal state to flattened. Understanding how solidworks works with sheet metal parts can help us determine what is going on.

From the view palette drag the flat pattern to the drawing sheet. I ve shown a relatively simple part above just tell that to the laser cutting machine operator just a bent plate with some mounting holes and cut out text that reads solidworks. The solution was to open a new part document delete the defaultsm flat pattern configuration and resave the document template. All of these standard sheet metal features work perfectly as long as you are dealing with only flat faces and cylindrical straight bend regions.

Standard sheet metal features sketched bends edge flanges miter flanges.