When you expand the representation of a body in the cut list, the body's flat pattern appears at the end of its feature list. The sketch and locating dimensions are retained.įlat patterns of all bodies appear at the end of the FeatureManager design tree. You can transform sketches and their locating dimensions from a folded state to a flattened state and back again. The software determines the smallest rectangle (bounding box) that aligns with the grain direction to fit the flat pattern. You can define a grain direction to use when calculating the bounding box for sheet metal parts. You can modify the parameters of Flat-Pattern1 to control how the part bends, to enable or disable corner options, and to control the visibility of the bend region in the flattened sheet metal part. So, you cannot order a cut with the Normal cut option underneath Flat-Pattern1.
You cannot reorder sheet metal features to go below Flat-Pattern1 in the FeatureManager design tree. To add features to the flattened sheet metal part, you must first unsuppress Flat-Pattern1. You flatten the entire sheet metal part by unsuppressing Flat-Pattern1. When Flat-Pattern1 is suppressed, all features that you add to the part automatically appear before this feature in the FeatureManager design tree.
