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12-Amethyst
August 26, 2019
Question

Shetmetal flat pattern on a drawing

  • August 26, 2019
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Hi all
I have on the drawing the flat pattern of a sheetmetal part, for the laser cutter.
Is it when possible to automate the process putting it on the drawing?
Here I mean by a mapkey on Jlink, my problem is to orient the part so it is laying on it's flat side, nevermind how it look like.

I was looking for how to make a saved view who allways are updated to the flat.
Can anyone help?

Allan

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22-Sapphire I
August 26, 2019

@akok 

One of the possible options is to have mapkey which will create flat state of part and create orientation with specific name.. for that flat state. Have a drawing view in template for orientation created in part. Or have a mapkey to create name drawing view and use geometry references for orientation.  

akok12-AmethystAuthor
12-Amethyst
August 27, 2019

@Mahesh_Sharma 

That was my thought too, but I was stranded by how to create orientation. How do I turn the flat so it is flat?

14-Alexandrite
August 27, 2019