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Step By Step Unfolding Sheet Metal In Drawing View
When making a drawing view, it would be nice to only unfold specific bends in the folded part. This would allow dimensioning at multiple stages in the forming process. This could possibly be controlled by turning off bends 1,2,3,etc. n the bend table in the flat pattern.
We call this a "Process Drawing". It will show the press brake operator the progression of the part as it is being formed. It would be great if this was added to Inventor. The way we have to do this now is to create an ipart of the model. In the ipart, we can suppress the bends at each stage. It is basically a different part. That allows us to place each stage on the sheet. Time consuming to have to do it this way, but it gets the job done.
@roy.conrad2KRX2, @Jim.Swain & @karthur1 , I recommend you to use the model states workflow in Inventor 2022, and it can afford to create step by step unfolding sheet metal, which can be used for drawing view creation.
1. Bend order annotation command in flat pattern can be used to define the bend order, and then add the bend table with bend ID to show the order of unfolding.
2. Create multiple models states to show the unfold steps, and created drawing views to show the order of unfolding.
