How To Show Bend Lines In Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing

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How to show bend lines in solidworks sheet metal drawing. To unmerge bend notes right click the merged note and click unmerge bend notes. You can control the precision for sheet metal bend line notes in tools options document properties tables bend. Sheet metal bend line notes. Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes.

Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide. Select the flat pattern drawing view to display the drawing view propertymanager. In the view properties tab clear display sheet metal bend notes. The second method i used was to expand out the flat pattern in the feature tree and find the sketch bend lines2 could be other numbers shown.

Show or hide bend notes. The first method i tried was to go to view sketches. Go to the view drop down menu or the view heads up menu and select sketches. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

No bend lines or bend notes are show then your bend line sketch for that view is more than likely not set to show. Search toggling the visibility of bend lines in the solidworks knowledge base. Displaying solidworks bend lines. You can also right click drawing view in the featuremanager design tree and select properties.

In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click on it and set it to show.