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I have a solid model id like to turn into sheet metal if that is the only option for making a flat pattern.
What id like to do is extrude the sheet metal off of the various faces such as the blue ones in the pic to create a single part. Multiple sheet parts would make up the model and when I make a change to the solid model it would change the sheet metal parts.
but for the most part id just like to have a thinner individual part from the solid model.
what ive tried so far is extruding the faces selected after creating a drawing for each one in the same part. This works but I have over lapping if I extrude inward, which is what I want.
Then I select the insert bends, it flattens but creates errors due to the overlapping and am unable to re-bend.
Any suggestions or options would be appreciated
never mind I figured it out, way to complicated to do such a simple thing. It only took me 7 hours to figure it out! This is an awesome program but way to complex, confusing and to many steps to do such a simple thing.
What I found was you extrude off the face creating a base flange sheet metal part, then select the edge flange tool and the edge you want a flange off of. Drag the length out then under the degree of bend select the box beside the wavy red paper looking thing? and check parallel to face then select the face which you would like the angle to be!
Now under "Flange parameters" click on the "edit flange profile" then delete the drawing lines and select the lines of the shape you wish the flange to be and select the "convert entities" then delete all the relations?? (didn’t work consistently when it had relations for some reason) and now 5 min. later… you should have a flange shaped how you want!