Holes Missing In Flat 2

[Plifter365]

I have 6 holes on a bent flange, they are all put in with the extrude cut feature, and all on the same sketch. When I unsuppress the flat 2 of the holes go missing. Any Ideas?

 

[wes616]

Unfortunately I don't believe that there is a way around this due to parent=child relationships using the "flatten" command.

The way I have gotten around this when my requrements are driven by the flattened feature is to use an unfold to flatten the part, I then make my hole and fold it again.


Wes C.
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[SolidAir]

Try sliding them up in the feature manager tree

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Post a screenshot or file for download so we can see what is happening.
See faq559-1100 & faq559-1177.


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[Plifter365]

The Holes you can see on the two larger Flanges, They are the 12 holes that are angled. They are above the Flat feature on my tree.

Here is the Part



Here is the Flat

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[smcadman]

It looks like your holes aren't the only problem you are having. The flat pattern doesn't coincide with the bent part. It looks like you are missing the area above the red lines:

http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=plifter365sheetmetalik7.jpg

You have 8 of the 12 holes; are they mirrors or patterns?

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Do you have any configs of the part? If so are any of the holes "skipped" in a pattern?

Can you show a screenshot of the Feature Manager tree?

Are you absolutely sure all the holes (parallel to the angled edges) are being cut from the same sketch? If they are, then what you are seeing is really weird.

If you are still having the same problem, post the actual SW file for download.


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[Plifter365]

Here you can see the tree of the part. the Tabs that smcadman was talking about were ment to be there, after the part is bent they are removed. I only have one configuration and one display state.



here you can see the sketch i used,

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[SBaugh]

I have 6 holes on a bent flange, they are all put in with the extrude cut feature, and all on the same sketch. When I unsuppress the flat 2 of the holes go missing. Any Ideas?

Use the unfold feature, add your holes, then use the fold feature. When you unsuppress the Flat pattern next time the holes should still be there.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[Plifter365]

Sbaugh,

That did it thanks everyone for your help.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I'm glad you got it to work ... but that doesn't make sense.

Why would only some of the holes become "lost"? Usually if it's a unfold/fold issue, all of the feature would be messed up.

Would you mind posting the part for download? I would like to investigate further ... just for personal interest.


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[Plifter365]

I figured it out, the four bend tabs that I added to the flat drawing, the sketch intersected the 4 middle holes on each corner, because the holes were a modification after the tabs I never thought to look at the sketch for the tabs.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

So did fix the sketch to allow the original way to work, or do you still have to use th unfold/fold method?


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[Plifter365]

The original way would have worked. So this was a great exorcize in futility. I feel a little foolish now!

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You shouldn't feel foolish at all ... we've now learned what to look for next time something similar happens.

Thanks for the feedback.


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