This is a special case, I guess I'd call it. The cut across bend works great
as long as the hole is on a face. I can overlap the bends with the profile
sketch, tick cut across bend and it comes out fine in the flat pattern. The
special case is where the hole is not on a face but on a workplane tangent
to the bend. In that case, the cut across bend feature seems to be unable to
function. Since this is a corner, thickness couldn't be an option because
the hole would need to be deeper to get the hole all the way through to
daylight. I was thinking I had seen a workaround for this, but I guess not.
It was probably the Cut across bend solution and I thought it was something
different because I already was aware of that one.
~Larry
"Loren Jahraus (Autodesk)" wrote in message
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> You should use cut across bend if you want a round hole in the flat. The
> flat pattern analyzer actually produces a spline as it flattens a cut, but
> we did some more work on our algorithms to recognize closed splines and
> change them to circles, so you will see some improvement in drawings.
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> If you have a part that is failing, post it to CF and I will look into it.
>
> Loren Jahraus
> Autodesk Inventor Workflow Team
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> "Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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> > Kent ... what's the trick for getting holes to come out round in a
> > flat-pattern? Know I've seen it before but haven't run into it often
> enough
> > to remember.
> > ~Larry
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