Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

With a single body sheet metal part open on the ribbon click sheet metal tab flat pattern panel click create flat pattern.

Sheet metal flat pattern. A flat pattern node is created in the browser. The flat pattern is created and displays. All features after flat pattern1 appear only in the flattened sheet metal part. All features before flat pattern1 in the featuremanager design tree appear in both the folded and flattened sheet metal part.

The flat pattern view is useful for fabrication and is the only view that supports sheet metal annotations. K factor in sheet metal bending is a constant used to calculate sheet metal flat length or flat pattern. Creating sheet metal flat pattern configurations you can create a configuration in a sheet metal part that shows the flattened part. Enter k factor values.

Use k factor calculator to calculate k factor values. Flat pattern the flat pattern1 feature is intended to be the last feature in the folded sheet metal part. Keep default values in calculator as zero. In the browser double click the folded model node to return to the folded model state or.

Mathematically k factor value is equal to the ratio of position of neutral axis and sheet thickness. Enter flange length internal radius and thickness values. To create a flat pattern configuration. 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.