Hide Table of Contents

Sheet Metal Options

Sheet metal options include:

  • Clear or display sheet metal bend line notes

  • Set display style for sheet metal bend line notes

  • Set the display colors for drawings of flat patterns

  • Bend Lines - Up Direction

  • Bend Lines - Down Direction

  • Form Feature

  • Bend Lines - Hems

  • Model Edges

  • Flat Pattern Sketch Color

  • Bounding box

 

To set options for sheet metal bend line notes:

  1. In a drawing document, click Options (Standard toolbar) or Tools, Options.

  1. On the Document Properties tab, select Sheet Metal.

To set flat pattern colors

To clear or display bend notes

To set bend notes style

  1. Under Flat pattern colors, select an entity and click Edit.

  1. Under Bend notes, select or clear Display sheet metal bend notes.

- or -

Right-click a flat pattern view, select Properties, and select or clear Display sheet metal bend notes.

  1. Under Bend notes, select an item in Style.

    • Above Bend Line

    • Below Bend Line

    • With Leader

  1. Select a color from the Color Palette and click OK.

  1. Click OK to close the Options.

  1. Click OK to close the Options.

 

  1. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for other entities, and then click OK to close the Options.

 

  If you select above or below the bend lines, you can also add note leaders individually or simultaneously while in the drawing document.



Provide feedback on this topic

SOLIDWORKS welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation, accuracy, and thoroughness of the documentation. Use the form below to send your comments and suggestions about this topic directly to our documentation team. The documentation team cannot answer technical support questions. Click here for information about technical support.

* Required

 
*Email:  
Subject:   Feedback on Help Topics
Page:   Sheet Metal Options
*Comment:  
*   I acknowledge I have read and I hereby accept the privacy policy under which my Personal Data will be used by Dassault Systèmes

Print Topic

Select the scope of content to print:

x

We have detected you are using a browser version older than Internet Explorer 7. For optimized display, we suggest upgrading your browser to Internet Explorer 7 or newer.

 Never show this message again
x

Web Help Content Version: SOLIDWORKS 2011 SP05

To disable Web help from within SOLIDWORKS and use local help instead, click Help > Use SOLIDWORKS Web Help.

To report problems encountered with the Web help interface and search, contact your local support representative. To provide feedback on individual help topics, use the “Feedback on this topic” link on the individual topic page.