Excellent! Tried Trick's suggestion of putting all the parts into an Assembly and shuffling them like that. Then create a drawing using only that front view. I think it worked like a charm. I'll find out for sure in the AM when the diemaker opens up his e-mail.
OK. Sorry for the confusion. I'm not explaining this clearly. Step 1 is to design the final part (actually an Assembly of extruded 2D pieces). Then Step 2 is to design the die layout (tooling). To create the die layout, you take all of the pieces (2D extrusions) which make up the Assembly...
That sounds good. However, can I use the work I've done in creating the part profiles to shortcut the tooling design? It sounds as though you are suggesting redrawing the 2D parts.
My company uses Solidworks to design foam packaging. Each component of the assembly is a die cut piece (in effect a 2D geometry that's been "extruded"). Then the Parts are simply mated in the Assembly. Is it possible to use the SolidWorks files to create the geometry for the steel...
