I have a sheet metal part that gets machined on a face after bending, Now this is easy to show in Fusion, but if i do this, the flat pattern becomes non valid and goes all weird. Am I doing it wrong?
File attached.
This gives me a valid flat pattern.
But if i extrude cut a face, the flat pattern becomes non valid.
Sheet metal only works with uniform thickness parts. You might be able to make an area thinner but the bends have to have a uniform inner and outer radius. You've cut away part of the outer fillet so it fails.
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Thinking through what you're trying to do, I'd create another component using Boundary Fill then modify the copy to show the machined part. Then you can keep the sheet metal part and unfold\flat pattern and also have the machined part. See attached file.
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Thanks, This can kind of work for me. However I will need to remove the sheet metal part from the BOM in drawings, and the mass off an assembly will be incorrect. I will base the workaround on my needs at the time.
This is where i need the feature, on this application, 25mm plate bent, welded to pipe and machined parallel and to tolerance size. When doing the drawings, the flat pattern failed and is a bit of an issue now as you can see in the pic below.
