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How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

ashes.man — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 07:22:44 GMT

Hi,

I would like to generate a set of drawings suitable for sending for laser cutting from a sheet metal model that has multiple bodies, each of which is a sheet metal part.

I can see how to turn each part one by one into a flattened panel and create a drawing, but is there a more automated way to do this to get all the flattened part drawings?

Are the F360 drawings suitable for sending to a laser cutter or is there a way to export a dxf of just the cutting profile?

I am open to better workflow suggestions

Model attached

Edit: I am using the free F360, it looks like dxf export is not available for me?

Betreff: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

mango.freund — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 07:52:53 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJiPkqUU2I

Re: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

HughesTooling — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:03:21 GMT

@ashes.man wrote:

Hi,

Edit: I am using the free F360, it looks like dxf export is not available for me?

I think you can export a DXF from within the flat pattern workspace so you could make 2d drawings and save as PDF and also supply a DXF of each part.

Mark

Re: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

ashes.man — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:12:30 GMT

Thanks, I just tried and you are correct. What I just learnt was that you can only have one flat pattern per component. I guess I need to separate all my bodies into components so I can make a flat pattern for each one.

Re: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

HughesTooling — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:19:10 GMT

@ashes.man wrote:
Thanks, I just tried and you are correct. What I just learnt was that you can only have one flat pattern per component. I guess I need to separate all my bodies into components so I can make a flat pattern for each one.

Yes you need a component for each body.

Mark

Re: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

ashes.man — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:34:51 GMT

It turns out you cant convert a sheet metal body to a component. So I guess that is tomorrows job, restructure the model into components...

Re: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

jhackney1972 — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:54:32 GMT

Take a look at this blog article and video, it will saved you a lot of time allowing you to convert sheet metal bodies into sheet metal components.

Re: How to generate drawings for sheet metal model with many bodies?

ashes.man — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:43:02 GMT

Thankyou for your workaround. Initially I thought I would still go back and make new components so the sketches would be with the components, but then I realised you cannot transfer things from the feature tree between components so would have mean redrawing sketches and starting from scratch.

I have converted all my bodies into sheet metal components by your method.