Hello there!
I have a multibody sheet metal part. I am facing problem in exporting flat-pattern dxf's of the two bodies.
The major problem is when exporting the dxf of the body named 'Back Big'. When I export it, its bendlines are missing.
Sometimes when exporting flat pattern of the body named 'Back Small', incorrect results are found.
Please help me in this. I am trying to solve this issue since a week but could not make it.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bhavarth
Create a drawing with the flat-patterns, then Save As .dxf
Tried it, to me it went fine. Did not measure them though.
Did you select "Bend lines", see image.
Attached are the DXF´s
Hello,
I wasn't able to get the large body's bend lines.
Also, when I try with both bodies in separate files, the second DXF is empty, with or w/o mapping.
SW2015 sp4
Cheers,
Kevin
Sorry, rechecked my separate DXF files and the large body was created on a layout tab under it's body name.
No bend lines though?
Cheers,
Kevin
I wasn't able to get the bend lines to show up in 'Back Big' either. tried just about everything I could think of. I normally don't use a dxf for a flat pattern since I have always been able to save it directly into my cad-cam from SW (add-in) and never have had a problem with that. This is sort of fun to play with though. Would be nice to know how Ingvar's options are set. Export to what version - line style etc.
Dennis,
I started to right click the bodies in the "Feature Manager Design Tree" and selected flatten to see how they looked.
Then I went on with the procedure I described earlier.
Here are the .dxf options, see image.
2015 sp4.0
Win7
Thanks Ingvar,, That works! I had Custom Map SOLIDWORKS to DXF/DWG checked. When I uncheck it the bend lines show in the DXF for Back Big. It is strange however it works on Back Small even when that option is checked. ????
Dennis,
strange things sometimes happens
Hello Ingvar
Thank-you very much for the solution.
Thanks to all for making the efforts.
Mine Custom mapping was enabled and that thing was actually creating problem in the dxf.
After disabling custom mapping, it worked fine.
I think we have to report SPR for this.
Hi,
I know this is an old thread but I haven't got a reply on a thread I started a while back. Is there not a way to use Custom Mapping with multi-body sheet metal parts? It seems like there should be. Here's the link for the thread I started How to use dxf mapping with a multi body part Help would be appreciated.
Thanks, TG
Tried it, to me it went fine. Did not measure them though.
Did you select "Bend lines", see image.
Attached are the DXF´s