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Sheet Metal

Flatten eliptic arc based object
Dear colleague, is there any hint-workaround for creating a flattable "something" of the attached object such that it could be finally cut on a laser cutter? All my attempts (extruding solids, thickening surfaces, extruding/thickening metal sheets) failed so far. I tried to insert a link to my document but it says that the…
how to convert an extrusion and adjacent surfaces into one flat pattern part
I'm trying to make Loft 15 and Loft 16 into a continuous part with extrude 2 so that i can covert it into a flat pattern with bends and then extract a dxf file so I will be able to cut it out on my plasma table, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do this. Am I missing something or will I just have to cut…
Sheet metal flanges on parts with corner chamfers
I'm learning OnShape and the flange tool behaves differently than how Solidworks would generate it. Any reason why the flange tool basically deletes the chamfer in this situation? It's not that I can't think of a workaround for this using partial flanges and some extrusions, but seems like a lot of extra commands for…
Design Help - Make Into One Part
Hello, I was hoping I can get some help… Can someone please help me turn this design into one part/piece? It is currently a sheet metal design one bend with a tab at the top. Thank you in advance. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b75c7385bb1f2d566f0796a2/w/6b32e06d7a6e555f1a9cf39b/e/d3a41469a5edc4d055f4675f
Query sheet metal bend / flange center line
Hello there ! I'd like to measure the distance between a hole axis and my sheet metal bend center line (the dotted line inside the sheet metal flat view), but i'm having a hard time querying it I did managed to do a "manual" query of the center line ike so : annotation { "Name" : "Center line", "Filter" : EntityType.BODY…
Nesting Sheet Metal parts in Drawing
Is there a tool or featurescript that allows to nest a bunch of flat sheet metal parts to one Drawing or Sketch? To export to DXF. I need to laser-cut many parts in one go. Preferrably nicely packed together. Now I manually place them in a drawing, but that is too painful, as the parts are also subject to change based on…
Complimentary Bend (New Feature)
Complimentary Bend In response to Byran Lagrange's request , I have created a feature that changes the bend table and drawing callout for sheet metal bends. The feature changes the bend angle to the complimentary angle. Just insert it before the "Finish Sheet Metal Model" feature, and select an edge from each joint.
Error: "Should be unreachable!"
Hello everyone, I got the custom Featurescript "Form Sheetmetal" from @MBartlett21. We are using this on a daily Base to add embossing feet etc. Now I got a problem I´ve never seen. It says "Should be unreachable"… It worked the first time, but the error message appears with the second feature. Does anyone had the same…
Sheet metal flange using featurescript
Hi everyone! 😁 I'm working on creating a very basic flange on a square flat sheet metal part using FeatureScript. My goal is to eventually generate a 90° flange by selecting the edge of the sheet. I managed to achieve it by copy-pasting the entire code from the official standard library, but I’d like to know how to simply…
Are we able to return a Computed Suface Area of the Sheet Metal Top Side Only in FeatureScript?
I've been searching without luck to see if there is a FeatureScript that outputs into a custom table, the computed surface area of only the top or 'good side' of a flat sheet metal part on the flat? If not, is there a way to return this value in a FeatureScript that I'm not seeing? The basic evArea returns the entire…

Flatten eliptic arc based object
Dear colleague, is there any hint-workaround for creating a flattable "something" of the attached object such that it could be finally cut on a laser cutter? All my attempts (extruding solids, thickening surfaces, extruding/thickening metal sheets) failed so far. I tried to insert a link to my document but it says that the…
how to convert an extrusion and adjacent surfaces into one flat pattern part
I'm trying to make Loft 15 and Loft 16 into a continuous part with extrude 2 so that i can covert it into a flat pattern with bends and then extract a dxf file so I will be able to cut it out on my plasma table, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do this. Am I missing something or will I just have to cut…
Sheet metal flanges on parts with corner chamfers
I'm learning OnShape and the flange tool behaves differently than how Solidworks would generate it. Any reason why the flange tool basically deletes the chamfer in this situation? It's not that I can't think of a workaround for this using partial flanges and some extrusions, but seems like a lot of extra commands for…
Design Help - Make Into One Part
Hello, I was hoping I can get some help… Can someone please help me turn this design into one part/piece? It is currently a sheet metal design one bend with a tab at the top. Thank you in advance. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b75c7385bb1f2d566f0796a2/w/6b32e06d7a6e555f1a9cf39b/e/d3a41469a5edc4d055f4675f
Query sheet metal bend / flange center line
Hello there ! I'd like to measure the distance between a hole axis and my sheet metal bend center line (the dotted line inside the sheet metal flat view), but i'm having a hard time querying it I did managed to do a "manual" query of the center line ike so : annotation { "Name" : "Center line", "Filter" : EntityType.BODY…
Nesting Sheet Metal parts in Drawing
Is there a tool or featurescript that allows to nest a bunch of flat sheet metal parts to one Drawing or Sketch? To export to DXF. I need to laser-cut many parts in one go. Preferrably nicely packed together. Now I manually place them in a drawing, but that is too painful, as the parts are also subject to change based on…
Complimentary Bend (New Feature)
Complimentary Bend In response to Byran Lagrange's request , I have created a feature that changes the bend table and drawing callout for sheet metal bends. The feature changes the bend angle to the complimentary angle. Just insert it before the "Finish Sheet Metal Model" feature, and select an edge from each joint.
Error: "Should be unreachable!"
Hello everyone, I got the custom Featurescript "Form Sheetmetal" from @MBartlett21. We are using this on a daily Base to add embossing feet etc. Now I got a problem I´ve never seen. It says "Should be unreachable"… It worked the first time, but the error message appears with the second feature. Does anyone had the same…
Sheet metal flange using featurescript
Hi everyone! 😁 I'm working on creating a very basic flange on a square flat sheet metal part using FeatureScript. My goal is to eventually generate a 90° flange by selecting the edge of the sheet. I managed to achieve it by copy-pasting the entire code from the official standard library, but I’d like to know how to simply…
Are we able to return a Computed Suface Area of the Sheet Metal Top Side Only in FeatureScript?
I've been searching without luck to see if there is a FeatureScript that outputs into a custom table, the computed surface area of only the top or 'good side' of a flat sheet metal part on the flat? If not, is there a way to return this value in a FeatureScript that I'm not seeing? The basic evArea returns the entire…

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