Flattening Sheet Metal Solidworks With Cuts

These improvements also provide better flattened geometry for certain corner treatments lofted bends and in some cases where cuts intersect bend regions.

Flattening sheet metal solidworks with cuts.

All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. The bend lines are shown by default when you unsuppress flat pattern1. In the featuremanager design tree select the part and click flatten sheet metal toolbar. To flatten the entire part if the flat pattern1 feature is present unsuppress flat pattern1 or click flatten on the sheet metal toolbar.

In addition a cut list contains a separate representation for each body with a flat pattern specific to the body. The normal cut tool applies a normal cut feature that is independent from the tools that removed the material. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which previously failed. In the cut list right click the body and click flatten.

Multibody sheet metal cut lists offer the same features as weldment cut lists including the ability to automatically organize and update sheet metal bodies and view sheet metal properties. Patrick you can t flatten surface in anything but the the latest versions of solidworks even then there is no feature to re form them. You can select several faces to define a normal sheet metal side wall not top or bottom faces. With the normal cut tool you can normalize all non normal side walls in sheet metal models.

In either the featuremanager design tree or the cut list right click the flat pattern feature for the part and click unsuppress.