Hiding bend lines in flat pattern

[WillGKDMN]

Hello all,

I was working on a gasket between two folded sheet metal parts, so to match the parts I modelled the gasket as a sheet metal part in between the two components, it fits well and the advantage I figured was that I could use a flat pattern to get the gasket sent out and cut. The problem is no matter what I have tried I cannot hide the bend line, it appears as a centre line style line and makes the drawing confusing. Any ideas?  I can't send any images because of an NDA.

If there is no solution and fusion developers want a quick solve, there are settings that can change the line colour on fusion drawings, if the fusion developers offered a transparent option with the colour choices - I think there is a unique hex code for transparency - then that would be a quick and simple solve.

Kind regards,

Will

[davebYYPCU]

I presume you are saving the flat pattern as dxf file, edit that file and remove unwanted articles.

Might help....

[WillGKDMN]

A DXF is also exported but a properly dimmed drawing is needed, and is created on a standardised template.

[jhackney1972]

You can remove the Bend Lines by going into the 2D Drawing Document Setting, from the Browser, and then change the color of the Bend Lines to white so they will not be visible or print.

[WillGKDMN]

Yeah, I already found this, it does work but it still causes a small line break, fine if you only have 1 bend but if you have several it looks like a drawing error. I know I am being a pedant, but I just thought I'd check. Thanks for trying though, much appreciated.

[james_r_hutchinson]

From memory, find flat sheet in the model tree on the left hand side, in the nested drop down there should be options to turn off bend lines or bend extents.

[jhackney1972]

You are correct but the setting in the model do not carry over to the 2D drawing.  There is a selection check, in the view placement dialog, to turn off Bend Extents but not Bend Lines.

[ClintBrown3D]

Hi @WillGKDMN 

Once you have exported the DXF, you can always turn off the Layers that are exported. In the example below, I am using AutoCAD.