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Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

(OP)
I've been working in solid works for about 4 years. I draw in sheet metal and export the flat as dwg. I recently upgraded from 09' to 10' and now all the dwgs i export are doubled in scale. I cannot find a setting any where to alter this. I have looked at the dwg/dxf options in the "save as" area and it is set 1:1 sheet scale (even though i am not saving from a sheet). I also checked the flat pattern configuration and all is well. Everything is to scale until it is exported to dwg. It has become very frustrating, i cannot figure out why solidworks is scaling up all of my flat patterns.

Thnaks,

Justin

RE: Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

Let me make sure I understand. You are saving a .slddrw which is to scale, as a .dwg which is then scaled up behind the scenes? I do a lot of the same work but ... have seen this if my options are not set properly in SW but it is scaled up in the .slddrw as well.

RE: Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

Justin,

Post the files you are having issues with so we can look at it and offer solutions.  Zip into an archive and post the zip file.

Cheers,

Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
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RE: Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

Check the units they getting exported to.

Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP3.0
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0

RE: Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem


Justin,

I don't know if this is relevant to your problem; but not being too familiar with the DWG editor, it had me puzzled for a while.

I'd been down the path of making sure of sheet scales and even created a "Full size" DXF/DWG sheet for exporting large items to avoid annoying error messages. I always opened the exported file in the DWG editor and used "Inquiry > Distance" to measure a couple of key elements to make sure all was OK.  One day, shortly after upgrading SW and the Editor, I had a query from the workshop and went to check the DWG, it measured OK, but when I added a dimension, this was scaled 5X!!

After a bit of digging in the Editor, I found that under >Settings > Dimension Settings > Units (Tab) there are a couple of Scaling Options, the "Comprehensive scale factor" was correctly set to 1.00 but the "Linear Dimensioning scale factor" was set to 5.00 in a scrollBox. Quite why anyone would want the dimensions not to show the actual size is beyond me and seems very dangerous, I guess it must have some use (or so the programmer thought).  I don't know if these setting are carried with the file, or if the setting on the openers software applies, so now I always add a couple of check dimensions to the exported file, and EXPLODE them to arrows and text so they won't be scaled whatever the settings.
 

RE: Solidworks 2010 Flat Pattern problem

(OP)
I was saving strait from a sldprt. A sheet metal design to be exact. I ended up just pressing the "reset all" in the solidworks settings and it fixed itself. Thanks for the help though.

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