Sheetmetal problem

I have just had the opportunity to try SolidWorks 2003.
I made bended ssheet metal part and create a hole on a bended part. I
couldn't see the hole on flatened view on drawing, which i need for laser
cut off this part.


Cheers,
Tone

 

I guess you mean you made a extrude/cut hole across an existing bend?....you
need to flatten your sheetmetal part then perform operations on it-like your
hole- then rebend it. follow the online tutorial example. otherwise you are
just making features after the sheetmetal forming operation and they wont
show in the flattened form

 

Maybe the cut is just surpressed ? Or maybe you flattened the bend by
unsupressing Flat-Pattern, and then added the cut after Flat-Pattern. In
general, dont do that... If you need to flatten the part, use the Unfold
command, cut your holes and then fold it again using the Fold command.

Leo

 

Hey Anton,

Sounds like your features are falling after the flat. You may be able
to just drag the feature up the tree and place it prior to the flat
pattern. As for unfolding prior to adding features, I'm not sure what
the advantage is in this. I have hundreds of sheet metal models that
have many features. I have used the unfold/fold commands probably less
than 15 times in total. I guess it depends on how you are defining a
sheet metal part?

If dragging the feature up the tree doesn't work well for you, you can
delete it and then roll back prior to the flat pattern, insert your
feature and then it should work.

Good luck with it. SolidWorks is a great tool for sheet metal.
Unfortunately, there are some 'different' ideas out there on how best
to impliment it.

Dave