I am very frustrated with the inability to make a layout of various flat parts on a sheet, program and cut in the cam interface. The best we can do is unfold parts temporarily and save them as a copy. I don't think the K factor is figured properly for this. Also you cannot do any programming on an unfolded part without first exiting the unfold configuration of the part. The same goes for the flat pattern. The software assumes that the only thing one would want to do is send to a laser or something ( I honestly don't know what we are expected to do with our flat patterns, if we cannot save them or utilize them in the cam interface.
We do a lot of plastic fabrication and we are constantly using sheet metal design function to create heat bent plastic parts. We then flatten and cut on our cnc routers. There is no good way to get a flat pattern instance of the part that can be layed-out on a sheet and programmed in the cam interface. Why not?
