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Flatten Sheet Metal - Quick Question.. weird!

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I'm new to the Sheet Metal features in Solidworks, but I'm using it to design a big steel pumpkin for a work project. The pumpkin is made from (30) vertical strips. Everything looks great, except when I use the flatten tool it gives me an INCORRECT flattened part. Really strange!
Here's a picture of the part. I'm also attaching a picture of the full assembly and the flattened view at the top of the drawing.
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The flattened view should be thickest at the middle and taper on both ends, but it's shown as being narrow the whole way except for the ends which come to a point. I can't figure out why it doesn't flatten correctly.

I used a youtube training tutorial which did something very similar but their flattened view turned out fine. The main difference between their model and mine was that they used a single continuous curve where I had (3).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 

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