From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

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Flatten - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

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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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