How To Show Bend Lines In Solidworks Sheet Metal Drawing

Select the flat pattern drawing view to display the drawing view propertymanager.

How to show bend lines in solidworks sheet metal drawing.

Go to the view drop down menu or the view heads up menu and select sketches. In the view properties tab clear display sheet metal bend notes. Displaying solidworks bend lines. This toggles the visibility of sketches and if it is off the bend lines sketch will be hidden.

Search toggling the visibility of bend lines in the solidworks knowledge base. No bend lines or bend notes are show then your bend line sketch for that view is more than likely not set to show. To unmerge bend notes right click the merged note and click unmerge bend notes. When you create a drawing of your sheet metal part a flat pattern is automatically created.

Hiding the bend lines also hides the sheet metal bend notes. You can control the precision for sheet metal bend line notes in tools options document properties tables bend. The second method i used was to expand out the flat pattern in the feature tree and find the sketch bend lines2 could be other numbers shown. Solidworks 2017 sp05 to disable web help from within solidworks and use local help instead click help use solidworks web help.

Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click on it and set it to show. In the drawing view propertymanager you can. You can also right click drawing view in the featuremanager design tree and select properties. The first method i tried was to go to view sketches.

Expand the flat pattern feature right click bend lines and select show or hide. In the featuremanager design tree expand drawing view to show the flat pattern feature.