Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing Flat Pattern

Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing flat pattern.

Click make drawing from part assembly standard toolbar and click ok to open the drawing sheet. 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. Flat pattern the flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part.

Select process bends and all of the features after it. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following.

Solidworks has supported sheet metal multi body parts for the last two releases but that still came as a pleasant surprise for me. From the view palette drag the flat pattern. Wrong flat pattern in view palette. Article by alin vargatu cswe updated december 13 2011.

All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for. Follow simple steps to learn. This is quick simple tutorial for solidworks beginners starting working with sheet metal.

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. Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Flat pattern views for sheet metal multi body parts. 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.

To create a drawing of a flat pattern.