When you add a swept flange to a conical sheet metal body, you can use the Cylindrical/Conical Bodies section to ensure that the resulting body flattens correctly.
The Cylindrical/Conical Bodies option is only available when the selected path along which the profile sweeps is a sketch.
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Click Swept Flange
(Sheet Metal toolbar) or .
- Select the profile and path for the swept flange feature.
- Expand Cylindrical/Conical Bodies and click the check box to enable the option.
- Select a linear sketch segment that is part of the profile to act as a fixed entity when you unfold the part.
- Click
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- Click Flatten
(Sheet Metal toolbar) to see the resulting flat pattern.