Onshape Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

If you want to hide the bend notes or lines right click the view and choose the option to hide bend notes or hide bend lines.

Onshape sheet metal flat pattern.

Add a tab to a sheet metal flange remove interfering material if appropriate or bridge two flanges from the same sheet metal model. Topics covered included creating features in the sheet metal flat pattern exporting to dxf dwg and more. Create sheet metal parts by converting existing parts extruding sketch curves including arcs and splines to create rolled sheet metal or thickening faces or sketches. Tips for working with sheet metal flat patterns in onshape june 26 2018.

In this webinar we took a look at all the tools onshape has for designing with sheet metal. To insert a flat pattern simply left click it from the list and left click to place the view. This functionality is available on onshape s browser ios and android platforms. This webinar focused on all the tips you need to know to work with sheet metal flat patterns in onshape.

Notice that by default both bend notes and bend lines show in flat pattern views in onshape drawings. Sheet metal is lightweight inexpensive and easily formed into almost any shape. The sketch dialog opens with the preselected face of the sheet metal flat pattern as the sketch plane. Right click on the sheet metal flat pattern.

You have the ability to sketch directly on a flat pattern for the purpose of making marks used in sheet metal manufacturing. However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets. All operations on active sheet metal models are automatically represented as a flat pattern and joints and bends are listed in a sheet metal table.