Onshape Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

Everything from the creation of the sheet metal part to exporting the flat pattern will be covered.

Onshape sheet metal flat pattern.

All operations on active sheet metal models are automatically represented as a flat pattern and joints and bends are listed in a sheet metal table. Right click on the sheet metal flat pattern. This webinar focused on all the tips you need to know to work with sheet metal flat patterns in onshape. In this webinar we took a look at all the tools onshape has for designing with sheet metal.

Sheet metal is lightweight inexpensive and easily formed into almost any shape. Notice that by default both bend notes and bend lines show in flat pattern views in onshape drawings. This functionality is available on onshape s browser ios and android platforms. Topics covered included creating features in the sheet metal flat pattern exporting to dxf dwg and more.

Add a tab to a sheet metal flange remove interfering material if appropriate or bridge two flanges from the same sheet metal model. If you want to hide the bend notes or lines right click the view and choose the option to hide bend notes or hide bend lines. Designing with sheet metal in onshape may 18 2018. However for all its versatility it is usually confined to the very mundane task of providing the world with cases covers and brackets.

To insert a flat pattern simply left click it from the list and left click to place the view. Sheet metal tabs are reflected in the model and in the flat pattern. The sketch dialog opens with the preselected face of the sheet metal flat pattern as the sketch plane.