Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing Flat Pattern

In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing flat pattern.

Dxf ready for metal fabricator shop. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. 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.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Solidworks has supported sheet metal multi body parts for the last two releases but that still came as a pleasant surprise for me. 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. 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.

Article by alin vargatu cswe updated december 13 2011. Select process bends and all of the features after it. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. Follow simple steps to learn.

Wrong flat pattern in view palette. Flat pattern the flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table.

This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. 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. Flat pattern views for sheet metal multi body parts.

To create a drawing of a flat pattern.