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Sheet metal flat pattern nesting
kevin_ward365
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I am creating some simple sheet metal designs that I need to nest the flat pattern into a drawing for laser cutting. I was trying to take the flat pattern and make a new part studio but for some reason I can't figure it out. Is there something I need to do? I can export to DWG but then I can't really do anything with it. Thanks in advance for helping this noob.
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You can insert your flat patterns in an Assembly and lay them out there (possibly by also bringing in a layout sketch).
If you really want the flats in a Part Studio, you can first bring them into an assembly, then create a new Part Studio in-context of that assembly and use the Transform feature with copy-in-place to make the flats movable. I gave a more detailed description of this in-context trick here:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/37447#Comment_37447