Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing Bend Line

Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide.

Solidworks sheet metal drawing bend line. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. Your simple sheetmetal bend is ready. Click sheetmetal insert bends click flat face as reference when it flatten. I thought it might be a solidworks issue and i checked around various settings and other options people have suggested all to no avail.

Whatever you want to call it. Set bend radius to 0 03in and k factor 0 5 and ok. I am having an issue with sheet metal drawings. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature.

Learn more about sheet metal. So in a part generated with the sheet metal tools your bend lines are stored in the flat pattern feature remember that this sketch you can show hide and suppress unsuppress to control how when it is displayed. Sheet metal bend line notes allow. The a will add the annotations which include the bend notes.

To learn more about solidworks sheet metal design you can attend a 2 day training course either in class or online. Look at part tree. Use line sketch and connected open end of this sketch and make it close both end. Bend notes in your sheet metal part drawings are a clear way to provide the required information for manufacturing they can be automatically inserted into the flat pattern drawing view.

Hi i am working on sheet metal part drawing i placed flat pattern on the drawing but didn t show bend line i don t know why i worked sheet metal drawing before it was ok i am using 2012 version. These bend notes will describe the bend direction bend angle and bend radius for each bend within solidworks.