Sheet Metal Dimensions

[Anonymous]

HI all,

I have been making some frames up for our camera trucks at work out of sheet metal in Inventor 2009.

I can take the folded parts into a drawing and retrieve the dimensions.

However, when I place the flattened pattern into a drawing I cannot get any of the dimensions.

Why is this so?

regards

Lorgra

[Anonymous]

can you supply the IPT file/data set?

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HI
all, I have been making some frames up for our camera trucks at work out of
sheet metal in Inventor 2009. I can take the folded parts into a drawing and
retrieve the dimensions. However, when I place the flattened pattern into a
drawing I cannot get any of the dimensions. Why is this so? regards
Lorgra

[Anonymous]

Hi

I tried attaching a zipped file of one the parts but the site won't allow me to for some reason.

cheers

[Stefan_Mistanic[Autodesk]]

Hi,

You can retrieved dimensions on flat pattern view only from features created in flat pattern environment in the model.
Dimensions from features created in folded environment can be retrieved only on folded view.

Regards,
Stefan Mistanic (Autodesk)
Inventor QA