Sheet Metal Flat Pattern Drafting

Click the flat pattern command.

Sheet metal flat pattern drafting. The select face in the upward face tab highlighted in the flat pattern dialog box. Flat pattern in nx drafting. Accuracy in the use of the scale rule. However to match the other dimensions that are included it would require your manufacturer to work with incorrect or unachievable sheet metal.

If appropriate select or clear the selection of the recover punch center option. In a sheet metal part create a new configuration. Calculation flat pattern used as a template for cutting the pipe producing with wall thickness s 0. The paper generally used for sheet metal pattern drafting is known as brown detail paper.

To create a flatten view in drafting. The sheet metal cleat the work of this problem will consist in laying out to full size the views and pattern for a galvanized sheet metal cleat. Set other options in the drawing view dialog and then click in the drawing to place the view. In making the layout for this cleat the following points must be kept in mind.

In the sheet metal view area select flat pattern view. How to dimension a drawing. The paper should be of medium thickness very strong and tough because. 1 1 1 scriber lines are drawn on sheet metal with a scribe or scratch awl coupled with a steel scale or a straightedge.

And it could well be unstable in case one tries to make changes. The proper relation of views in a drawing. The flat pattern drawing doesn t always list these factors. Layout tools are used for drawing fabrication jobs on metal.

In the sheet metal application select the face on the sheet metal model to specify a reference face for flattening. Flat pattern sheet metal drawing i just confirmed it can be done but it doesn t make sense why. In the featuremanager design tree do one of the following. Click place views tab create panel base.

It can be bought of almost any width in large or small rolls and is sold by the yard or pound. However for finished drawings white craft paper is more suitable. Calculator will calculate the necessary dimensions for the construction flat pattern segments lobsterback bend elbow tee piece frustum cone and truncated pipe truncated cone with an accessible vertex and triangulation method. I used a simplified rep state to create the bend back while the flat pattern was excluded.

Some of the more common layout tools are scriber flat steel square combination square protractor prick punch dividers trammel points and circumference ruler. Click edit suppress this configuration to suppress all of the selected features. Right click flat pattern and select unsuppress. Activate the sheet metal application.