Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

The flat pattern view is useful for fabrication and is the only view that supports sheet metal annotations.

Sheet metal flat pattern.

Flat pattern the flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. K factor in sheet metal bending is a constant used to calculate sheet metal flat length or flat pattern. To create a flat pattern configuration. Value of bend deduction and flat pattern are shown in result section.

Use k factor calculator to calculate k factor values. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part. In the browser double click the folded model node to return to the folded model state or. Here are the steps to be followed to calculate sheet metal flat length.

A flat pattern node is created in the browser. To ensure that all features are shown in a flat pattern you should create the flat pattern configuration after the entire design pattern of the part is complete. Enter k factor values. The flat pattern is created and displays.

Enter flange length internal radius and thickness values. In this article we will discuss sheetmetal bend deduction bend allowance k factor y factor and sheet metal flat pattern calculations. You can create a folded model view and a flat pattern view for a sheet metal part or ipart the flat pattern option is available only if a flat pattern exists in the source file the following practices apply for sheet metal iparts. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part.

Keep default values in calculator as zero.