From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal
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Flatten - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal
Flatten
- [Instructor] If you're working in sheet metal inevitably you're gonna have to flatten out that part to cut it out of sheet metal so then you can form it up to create your final part. So definitely keep in mind, whenever you're designing anything in sheet metal, you wanna make sure you're flattening out your part to make sure your flat pattern looks correct and is manufacturable. So the flatten command works pretty straight forward. Simply up here under sheet metal you can see here flatten, just go ahead and click on that flatten command and it's gonna go ahead and flatten out your part for you. It's also gonna show you where your bend lines are gonna be. As well are a bounty box are the final sides of your part. Which makes it really easy to come up here and click on a measurement tool. And figure out how long your part is, or how wide your part is, and so on. Now what you might not know about flatten as well, is you can jump back out of that command right here. You can also go over…
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Linear edge flange6m 6s
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Edge flange profile6m 4s
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Curved edge flange1m 37s
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Miter flange2m 41s
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Miter flange: Example 22m 47s
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Closed corner3m 51s
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Gauge tables4m 19s
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Bending calculations using K-Factor, bend deduction, and bend allowance7m 12s
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Hem3m 3s
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Jog3m 1s
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Sketched bend1m 38s
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Forming tool2m 42s
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Unfold and fold2m 23s
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Flatten2m 3s
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Convert to Sheet Metal3m 3s
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Sheet metal cut list properties1m 55s
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