Flattening Sheet Metal Solidworks With Cuts

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

Flattening sheet metal solidworks with cuts. In the featuremanager design tree select the part and click flatten sheet metal toolbar. Improvements to flattening sheet metal parts make flattening succeed for complex shapes which previously failed. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. To flatten a body do one.

In the cut list right click the body and click flatten. 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 addition a cut list contains a separate representation for each body with a flat pattern specific to the body. These improvements also provide better flattened geometry for certain corner treatments lofted bends and in some cases where cuts intersect bend regions.

In either the featuremanager design tree or the cut list right click the flat pattern feature for the part and click unsuppress. With the normal cut tool you can normalize all non normal side walls in sheet metal models. To flatten the entire part if the flat pattern1 feature is present unsuppress flat pattern1 or click flatten on the sheet metal toolbar. You can select several faces to define a normal sheet metal side wall not top or bottom faces.

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.