Flattening and Folding the Part

You can flatten all the bends of a sheet metal part at once.

  1. Verify that the rollback bar is rolled to the end, then click Flatten (Sheet Metal tab).
    This is the same as unsuppressing the Flat-Pattern feature that was created with the Base Flange feature.
    The flattened sheet metal part appears with all of the bend lines shown. You may also see a bounding box around the part. The bounding box is the smallest rectangle in which the flat pattern can fit.

  2. To fold the part back up, click Flatten again.
  3. Click File > Save to This PC.