Sheet Drawing Bend

Show model annotations in desired drawing view.

Sheet drawing bend. 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. Bend tags associate rows in a bend table with the view geometry. Solidworks tutorial sheet metal drawings duration. Creating drawings of flat patterns.

Finally i demonstrated that to have the bend notes in the event that your bend notes are not shown you need to select your drawing view and choose a flat pattern as your view. Toggling the visibility of bend region lines. Set desired drawing model active. Toggling the visibility of bend lines.

In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. Select the straight line and in the line type drop list select bend. Sheet metal modeling and drawing with bend table. Learn more about sheet metal.

Toggling the visibility of sheet metal bend notes. Green color move your note als you wish use mouse just a tip. A bend table lists propertied of all bends in a flat pattern view of a sheet metal part. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide.

Show the model notes. 3d cad files are converted into machine code which controls a machine to precisely cut and form the sheets into the final part. Bend sheet metal to create highly functional parts at low cost e g. Probably you will get the bend lines.

After you insert the bend table in the drawing bend tags are added to the selected drawing view automatically. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. To view the bend choose view 3d. Sheet metal bend line notes.

The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes. Draw a 2d shape. Select the outermost lines and in the z control set the thickness. Add new configuration in your assembly with a flat pattern then while adding the model to the drawing sheet change the configuration of the view from default to configuration that you have added for the flat pattern.

Cad cam tutorial 85 494 views. Right up command search. If you are looking for some functionality icon try following. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending.