Flattening Sheet Metal Solidworks With Cuts

The bend lines are shown by default when you unsuppress flat pattern1.

Flattening sheet metal solidworks with cuts.

To flatten the entire part if the flat pattern1 feature is present unsuppress flat pattern1 or click flatten on the sheet metal toolbar. Your best bet would be to make this using the sheet metal functions unfold it add your holes fold it then if you need a surface to do a surface offset of 0. To flatten a body do one. Multibody sheet metal cut lists offer the same features as weldment cut lists including the ability to automatically organize and update sheet metal bodies and view sheet metal properties.

Patrick you can t flatten surface in anything but the the latest versions of solidworks even then there is no feature to re form them. In the featuremanager design tree select the part and click flatten sheet metal toolbar. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. To hide the bend lines expand flat pattern1 right click bend lines and select hide.

With the normal cut tool you can normalize all non normal side walls in sheet metal models. You can select several faces to define a normal sheet metal side wall not top or bottom faces. In addition a cut list contains a separate representation for each body with a flat pattern specific to the body. In either the featuremanager design tree or the cut list right click the flat pattern feature for the part and click unsuppress.

The normal cut tool applies a normal cut feature that is independent from the tools that removed the material.