Hi,
I have a strange issue on a bucket shell, using split I removed the required material on both sides, and when I flatten the shell - the sides are straight instead of radius sides. Was trying to search and fix the issue, but so far I did not find what exactly is wrong. Also weird is the way SolidWorks is flatten the part holding the top instead holding the bottom.
Does anybody know what's wrong?
Thanks!
Maybe I'm not understanding, but when I flatten your part, both sides are radiused.
Jeff, is very small the difference, looks like a radius, but isn't a radius! should remove a little bit more material from the middle, see attach screenshot from the AutoCAD - on the DXF file, the inside yellow line is an older file (older shell), and the way supposed to look flattened.
Edit flat pattern feature and uncheck simplify bends.
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Brent is right!!
I did forget to uncheck "Simplify bends"!!
Thanks a lot for the support to all of you! Flatten issue is fixed!!
To fix which part is fixed when it flattens switch to flat view, then edit the Flat-Pattern1 feature at the bottom of the tree, then in the Fixed face selection area pick the face that should be fixed.
I'm using 2013 and the flat has curved edges.
what is the split for? are you just trying to trim?
if you edit the flat pattern feature you can change the fixed face.
if you don't really need the split you can redefine the planes and extrude to them instead of trying to cut.
I used a sketch to define the planes