I have a drawing with loads on sheet metal parts and I need to create a drawing showing the bend lines.
This is the part I need, as you can see it is a sheet metal part:
It is also possible to unfold, so I think it is designed correctly:
When I select new drawing from design, I pick this part. I have seen in videos that it was possible to specify here if I want the folded, or unfolded version, but it is not available here:
If I go ahead, I can insert the model into the drawing, the representation remains model and is it read only:
When I press OK, I get the border of the view, but the model disappears, nothing can be seen. Also if I try to add a bend table, Fusion says that the drawing does not contain bend information. It appears as if the model is not added to the drawing:
I am not sure what I have done wrong. Of steps that I forgot to do.
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Small correction. The model is there is the view, the box was actually the view of the model. Now I added the tangent lines and also a detailed view:
But it is still not unfolded and the bend table cannot be added (same message as above).
I think I understand the issue you are having. It is the difference between "Unfold":
and "create flat pattern":
Unfold is a temporary modeling operation, in the folded version of the design, to allow you to, say, make a circular cut across a bend in your sheet metal component. The workflow is: unfold, do some modeling, then refold. However, creating a flat pattern is a separate representation of the component, in its fully unfolded state. It is a mode in the Design workspace, to view the flat pattern. And, Drawings will let you choose the folded component, or the flat pattern, when making a drawing view. If you choose the flat pattern, you should have access to the bend table.
Thanks @jeff_strater, it all makes sense now. For those who are visual, once I generated the flat pattern, I can see the flat pattern in the hierarchy, and from that point, I could pick the representation in the Create Drawing pop-up.
And bend table is also added to the drawing.
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