topic Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern in Fusion Support Forum

Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

WillGKDMN — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:00:58 GMT

Hello all,

I was working on a gasket between two folded sheet metal parts, so to match the parts I modelled the gasket as a sheet metal part in between the two components, it fits well and the advantage I figured was that I could use a flat pattern to get the gasket sent out and cut. The problem is no matter what I have tried I cannot hide the bend line, it appears as a centre line style line and makes the drawing confusing. Any ideas? I can't send any images because of an NDA.

If there is no solution and fusion developers want a quick solve, there are settings that can change the line colour on fusion drawings, if the fusion developers offered a transparent option with the colour choices - I think there is a unique hex code for transparency - then that would be a quick and simple solve.

Kind regards,

Will

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

davebYYPCU — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:16:28 GMT

I presume you are saving the flat pattern as dxf file, edit that file and remove unwanted articles.

Might help....

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

WillGKDMN — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:34:13 GMT

A DXF is also exported but a properly dimmed drawing is needed, and is created on a standardised template.

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

jhackney1972 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:07:05 GMT

You can remove the Bend Lines by going into the 2D Drawing Document Setting, from the Browser, and then change the color of the Bend Lines to white so they will not be visible or print.

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

WillGKDMN — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:20:11 GMT

Yeah, I already found this, it does work but it still causes a small line break, fine if you only have 1 bend but if you have several it looks like a drawing error. I know I am being a pedant, but I just thought I'd check. Thanks for trying though, much appreciated.

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

james_r_hutchinson — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:21:56 GMT

From memory, find flat sheet in the model tree on the left hand side, in the nested drop down there should be options to turn off bend lines or bend extents.

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

jhackney1972 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:25:38 GMT

You are correct but the setting in the model do not carry over to the 2D drawing. There is a selection check, in the view placement dialog, to turn off Bend Extents but not Bend Lines.

Re: Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

ClintBrown3D — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:36:55 GMT

Hi @WillGKDMN

Once you have exported the DXF, you can always turn off the Layers that are exported. In the example below, I am using AutoCAD.