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

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

ashes.man
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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?

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mango.freund
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HughesTooling
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@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.

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ashes.man
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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.
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@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.

 

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ashes.man
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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...
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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.

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ashes.man
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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.

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