How To Show Bend Lines In Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing

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How to show bend lines in solidworks sheet metal drawing.

Sheet metal bend line notes allow. Solidworks show bend lines and notes in drawing with sheetmetal jonathan weisz. Cad cam tutorial 85 835 views. A customer had recently called in looking for a way to show his bend lines on the drawing of his sheet metal parts and while some people may say the answer is simple there are several ways to get the bend lines to show or not show in your drawing.

Learn more about sheet metal. Change the bend angle bend direction or bend radius and the notes update in the drawing. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes.

Solidworks tutorial sheet metal drawings duration. Provide feedback on this topic solidworks welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation accuracy and thoroughness of the documentation. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide. To learn more about solidworks sheet metal design you can attend a 2 day training course either in class or online.

When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.