How To Show Bend Lines In Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing

Displaying solidworks bend lines.

How to show bend lines in solidworks sheet metal drawing.

Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. Select the flat pattern drawing view to display the drawing view propertymanager. Go to the view drop down menu or the view heads up menu and select sketches. Solidworks 2015 tutorials subscribe for more engineering videos.

In the drawing view propertymanager you can. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature. You can also right click drawing view in the featuremanager design tree and select properties. 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. The first method i tried was to go to view sketches. 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.

Search toggling the visibility of bend lines in the solidworks knowledge base. Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide. To unmerge bend notes right click the merged note and click unmerge bend notes. 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.

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