The a side specifies the up direction of the part.
Inventor sheet metal export flat part.
Right click the flat pattern icon in the browser.
With inventor export face as is available while working on the flat pattern of a sheet metal part to export the entire flat pattern when the creation of a polyline is required.
Click the face that defines the up or punch direction.
Choose save copy as.
In the sheet metal environment export face as is available for both the flat pattern and the folded part.
Browse to the folder where you want to save the part and in file name enter a name.
Use the browser context menu to export a flat pattern of a sheet metal model.
With a sheet metal part open on the ribbon click sheet metal tabflat pattern panel define a side.
Create a flat pattern from a sheet metal model.
With a single body sheet metal part open on the ribbon click sheet metal tab flat pattern panel click create flat pattern.
A selected face unfolds the part using the selected face as the base face.
Export a flat pattern of a sheet metal model to sat dwg or dxf file types.
You must already have a flat pattern of your part created.
The a side is defined and a browser entry is created when you create the flat pattern.
Besides just exporting the flat patterns the application will also insert part number material thickness and quantity properties for each flat pattern dxf file or include it in the file name.
A browser entry is created.
Edge marks scribes and notch circle geometry can also be added as part of post processing.
However in autodesk inventor you can utilize the sheet metal commands on any.
Optionally create a flat pattern.
If you design small objects this material is often thin.
The autodesk inventor software provides functionality that simplifies the creation editing and documentation of digital prototypes of sheet metal components a sheet metal part is often thought of as a part fabricated from a sheet of uniformly thick material.
By clint brown i ve written a bit of ilogic code that will export out a dxf file from a sheet metal model.
Export sheet metal flat pattern parts of an assembly to dxf in one go.
Before you create the flat pattern you can define the a side or select a face to unfold from.
