sheetmetal troubles

Florian_Schneider

Hello

I d like to have those depressions in the sheet metal. How does this work? https://cad.onshape.com/documents/025b094105b1d1c8396de763/w/b257960963f4c0affae63d3f/e/627436208ab9e34c8a8d2a1c

john_mcclary

before you finish sheet metal model, you can create a sketch on the flat pattern to represent the top view.
in order to make it parametric you will need to define the notches with variables, and this draw in again as you have shown in your second screen shot.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/28050bca2b1ddeb0acbab720/w/72369ffa7faabbf84de28ab1/e/912335f271f8c51525c09933

to show sketch on flat pattern in drawing



to export the sketch to dxf use this option

Cris_Bowers

Partial depth features in sheet metal would be very much appreciated so that we don't have to go through this extra process of drawing separate sketches on the flat pattern for features that appear on the finished model. Just another place to make a mistake

john_mcclary

I agree, I hate redundant features.
But the same sketch we create in the flat pattern area could be used for the finished SM features if it were visible in the modeling area. Maybe that would be more likely for Onshape to change.
Then it would be fully parametric without partial extrudes in SM.

Florian_Schneider

so this is all onshape has to give to sheetmetal users?
Does not quite satisfy me...

lana

@Florian_Schneider Please let us know the missing sheet metal functionality you need the most and vote for existing improvement requests or create new ones. We continue developing sheet metal functionality and use improvement request vote count to help us prioritize the projects.