Sheet metal - bend lines are not displayed

Sheet metal - bend lines are not displayed

uscheidegger
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Sheet metal - bend lines are not displayed

uscheidegger
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Good morning

 

I'm trying to create cutting and bending plans for a large metal box.

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As the box will need to be built from two pieces of sheet metal, I'll need to make some manual corrections to the flat pattern. In this nice video from NYC CNC it's shown how you can do this. However unlike in the video, my bend lines are displayed no matter at all. And yes, they are turned on in the tree:

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Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

THANKS!

 

 

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lichtzeichenanlage
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It looks like, you have switched of design history. The sheet metal workspace is only available if the history is enabled. IMHO this is your problem.

 

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uscheidegger
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Thanks so much for your reply. I checked this and cannot confirm it: In the normal view (i.e. not in the "Flat Pattern"), the history is listed as you would expect it to be. To make sure that I'm not doing anything stupid without knowing, I followed each step in the NYC CNC video.

Before creating the flat pattern:

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As you can see, the history is there. Then, when I create the flat pattern, the part is isolated and only it's history is displayed:
Screen Shot 2018-05-02 at 07.48.03.png

 

Unlike in the video, the bend lines are missing, although they are turned on (unfortunately not visible when creating a "window screenshot" on the Mac).

Also when I unfold the part instead of creating a flat pattern, no bend lines are displayed (unlike in the video):

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carl.j.barker
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Is your visual style under display settings set to just shaded, rather then shaded with visible edges ?

 

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uscheidegger
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@carl.j.barkerwrote:

Is your visual style under display settings set to just shaded, rather then shaded with visible edges ?

 


Man, your good! Thanks a bunch for pointing this out.
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ndennisXHFV4
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This worked for me as well! Thanks for the forum & Topic

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mike_niemotka
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Just was googling the same issue!  THANKS!

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