Solidworks Sheet Metal Start With Flat Pattern

I m just wondering if there is a tool in solidworks that can enable me to do this or a macro i can implement.

Solidworks sheet metal start with flat pattern.

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. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. To create a flat pattern configuration.

In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Select process bends and all of the features after it. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. In the featuremanager design tree.

I m trying to batch export multiple sheet metal flat patterns of an assembly to dxfs instead of opening and saving as each individual parts. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. In the last few years he moved to ts working closely with vars mario wrote the sheet metal functionality best practice manual as well as creating hundreds of sheet metal knowledge base articles.

Sheet metal parts can have sketches in the folded and the flat pattern states fig. In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part.

Hunter hinson dec 31 2018 10 24 am. This is true for all solid body geometry as well as sheet metal designs. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which.

To ensure that all features are shown in a flat pattern you should create the flat pattern configuration after the entire design pattern of the part is complete. With sheet metal designs when you have more than one body solidworks will create separate flat patterns and cut lists on. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. The flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part.