Abstract
Many companies that use outside manufacturing for their sheet metal parts may just send their suppliers a drawing with views of a dimensioned part in the folded state. Many users may think that providing a fully dimensioned flat pattern is very valuable to the sheet metal shop. This chapter gives user all the information they need to know to make sheet metal drawings, regardless of their role and without trying to tell them how to do their job. SolidWorks automatically calculates a bounding box for users' sheet metal flat pattern. User cannot flatten multiple sheet metal bodies simultaneously within a single sheet metal part. However, SolidWorks is adding more capabilities for drawings of multibody parts. Multibody modeling in sheet metal opens a range of possibilities in documenting inseparable subassemblies and small weldments using sheet metal parts.
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