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Change dirction of bends in flat pattern
bryan_lagrange
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@lana, @scott_harris I had an idea to have the flat pattern in the drawing be placed in the drawing with direction you need.
Onshape automatically creates a flat pattern. If a Direction column were added to the bend chart you could see how the flat patten in oriented. If the chart has the direction as up and you need it to have the direction as down (material finish reasons) You could toggle the view cube to bottom then right click and have a command such as set as default. Default would be the view you need the flat to be represented in the drawing. When changing the orientation and setting the new default, the chart would change from up to down or down to up depending on what you had previous.
Something like this:
The other option I would like to see added is the ability to change the angle callout from outside(default) to inside. I need the inside call out for press brake purposes. Sorry for the wierd angles, I did a quick sketch and extrude to create these screen shots.
What do you guys think?
Thank you for all your help
Bryan Lagrange
Onshape automatically creates a flat pattern. If a Direction column were added to the bend chart you could see how the flat patten in oriented. If the chart has the direction as up and you need it to have the direction as down (material finish reasons) You could toggle the view cube to bottom then right click and have a command such as set as default. Default would be the view you need the flat to be represented in the drawing. When changing the orientation and setting the new default, the chart would change from up to down or down to up depending on what you had previous.
Something like this:
The other option I would like to see added is the ability to change the angle callout from outside(default) to inside. I need the inside call out for press brake purposes. Sorry for the wierd angles, I did a quick sketch and extrude to create these screen shots.
What do you guys think?
Thank you for all your help
Bryan Lagrange
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One other request I have is the ability to be able to reorder the bends to the sequence which would be used by the operator and even have backstop settings based on these sequences.
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
Thank you for your suggestion.I'll give it more thought.
@brucebartlett
The "move up", "move down" options in context menu are there to allow reordering :
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
Thank you for checking in. Thoughts and suggestions - yes, not enough cycles to get to implementations - alas! If you have any additional thoughts, please voice them.
Thanks!
Thank you.
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
Thank you for your patience. Please keep popping this up.
So I definitely throw in my plus one for the ability to switch from outside angle to inside angle (supplementary to complementary)
Something that is related, but more of a curiosity.... I recall from solidworks (maybe wrongly because it has been a year or so) that depending on the faces selected on a part, the angle reported at the measure/distance readout would be either inside or outside...depending on if the faces where on the inside or outside. This seemed at the time unnoticeable -- but when I went to order my first sheetmetal part with onshape I was having trouble figuring out what bend the table was reporting -- because no matter what faces you select.. onshape will always report the inside angle.
Thanks,
Bruns
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
This will be very helpful for friends who are used to using sheet metal for the bending process, as it minimizes errors during the bending process, while manual editing in other 2D software will also waste time.
I hope this feature will be implemented soon.