Nx Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

It contains both a flattened solid currently suppressed and a 2d flat pattern.

Nx sheet metal flat pattern. Export flat pattern flat patt. This is the second in a series of articles highlighting what s new. In the sheet metal application select the face on the sheet metal model to specify a reference face for flattening. Nx sheet metal provides a set of tools within the nx design environment that allows for simple and fast design of sheet metal parts dependent on their material and manufacturing process the most common of which is straight brake sheet metal forming.

And select the pattern geometry tool under pattern feature. Create a part what you want. Activate the sheet metal application. Synchronous or ordered the when why and more.

Click the flat pattern command. The sheet metal training is developed for engineers who create linear sheet metal products. Also some common modeling features such as sketch hole and patterns are used in this training. Nx12 has been a well received release from sheet metal users.

I am not able to view the flat pattern in nx sheet metal siw979 mechanical 6 nov 12 11 32 a quicker way to view the flat pattern is to expand the model views node at the top of your part navigator so you can see a list of all the default view and the flat pattern view and you can just double click to change between views you want to see. Select the geometry and specify the path in our example that would be the circle and the curve line respectively. Flat pattern in nx unigraphics 1. All sheet metal features will be covered in this training.

For solid just to check flat pattern in solid 3. For drafting 2 flat solid. You have a bent object now you should use flat pattern and select bent edges and then click ok. You can create a flatten unbended sheet metal view in the drafting.

The new flattening and forming command in nx 11 makes it easy. To create a flatten view in drafting. Attached is a sample part modeled in nx 6 0 based on your picture. Give a flange to that or give a bend.

The flat pattern feature is an essential component needed for sheet metal manufacture and nx12 has seen some valuable new functions. For example sheet metal flanges tabs contour flanges etc.