Flat Pattern Sheet Metal Drawing

Open the sheet metal part for which you want to add a drawing.

Flat pattern sheet metal drawing.

In the drawing view dialog box select a sheet metal component as file. If appropriate select or clear the selection of the recover punch center option. The flat pattern drawing doesn t always list these factors. In the sheet metal view area select flat pattern view.

Select a format or click ok to use the default format. Set other options in the drawing view dialog. Create a flat pattern drawing view of a sheet metal part click place views tab create panel base. This tutorial show how to create production drawing for.

In the sheet metal view area select flat pattern view. However to match the other dimensions that are included it would require your manufacturer to work with incorrect or unachievable sheet metal forming factors. We would prefer not to use this method as it introduces an extra part number that we must track. Hello when creating a drawing of a sheet metal part we currently use the family table method to have two models in one sheet.

If appropriate select or clear the selection of the recover punch center. From the view palette drag the flat pattern. Solidworks sheet metal drawing tutorial bend line flat pattern unfolded bend table punch table. Dimensions given on a flat pattern are affected by several bending factors like k factor and bend radius during the 3d modeling stage.

In the drawing view dialog box select a sheet metal component as file. To create a drawing of a flat pattern.