Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part.

Sheet metal flat pattern.

The flat pattern view is useful for fabrication and is the only view that supports sheet metal annotations. Flat pattern the flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. A flat pattern node is created in the browser. Value of bend deduction and flat pattern are shown in result section.

All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. K factor in sheet metal bending is a constant used to calculate sheet metal flat length or flat pattern. To ensure that all features are shown in a flat pattern you should create the flat pattern configuration after the entire design pattern of the part is complete. Enter k factor values.

Mathematically k factor value is equal to the ratio of position of neutral axis and sheet thickness. Keep default values in calculator as zero. Use k factor calculator to calculate k factor values. You can create a folded model view and a flat pattern view for a sheet metal part or ipart the flat pattern option is available only if a flat pattern exists in the source file the following practices apply for sheet metal iparts.

With a single body sheet metal part open on the ribbon click sheet metal tab flat pattern panel click create flat pattern. To create a flat pattern configuration. In the browser double click the folded model node to return to the folded model state or. Creating sheet metal flat pattern configurations you can create a configuration in a sheet metal part that shows the flattened part.

Here are the steps to be followed to calculate sheet metal flat length.