Drawings for sheet metal parts
Drawings for sheet metal parts
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Greetings,
I have made some sheet metal parts in V17, and have them in the bent format and saved them as flat. My question is how to show the part in both formats on a fabrication drawing that would be reviewed by manufacturing in order to obtain overall sizes?
I have made some sheet metal parts in V17, and have them in the bent format and saved them as flat. My question is how to show the part in both formats on a fabrication drawing that would be reviewed by manufacturing in order to obtain overall sizes?





RE: Drawings for sheet metal parts
The first screen after picking a sheetmetal part in "Drawing view wizard" you can point to "Designed part" or "Flat pattern". You just need to do the drawing view wizard twice.
RE: Drawings for sheet metal parts
RE: Drawings for sheet metal parts
Patrick
RE: Drawings for sheet metal parts
Question: Is there any adverse effects of having an "Unbend" and "rebend" in the Feature Path of the part?
Should the part have been saved as a "Flat" to begin with?
The only apparent option that I have now is to save the file as a flat and then add a 2nd reference part to the dft file, thus giving the flat pattern and the formed part.
Confused.
RE: Drawings for sheet metal parts
You have to create the flat pattern directly into the psm file and in order to accomplish it you have to change the "model" so if you click on the pull down menu "model" you will see that there is a check beside "design" that's for when you work on the part. Then when you want to have the flat pattern you check the "flat pattern" button from the same pull down menu. You should be good from there.
Patrick