Solidworks 2011

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Permalink Reply by Deepak Gupta on March 10, 2011 at 10:19am

Set up a template for Sheet metal and choose that as your starting file. You can even include some features in that part template.

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Permalink Reply by Steve McLeod on March 10, 2011 at 11:07am

Ok thanks Ill try it.

 

Another question. I have my part drawn and I want to save as dxf, but in the bottom corner it says editing part should it say that? It allows me to save as a dxf but when I go to open it in ACAd it says its write protected?

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Permalink Reply by Deepak Gupta on March 10, 2011 at 6:21pm

Steve

I have my part drawn and I want to save as dxf, but in the bottom corner it says editing part should it say that?

Yes and that signifies you're in part mode.

 

Not sure why it's going write protected. BTW, how you're saving the files as DXF: Using File > Saveas > DXF OR Right click on flat pattern and then Exporting as DXF?

 

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Permalink Reply by Steve McLeod on March 11, 2011 at 6:21am

Once drawn I go to file> create drawing etc.

 

Another error I keep getting is when I save as dxf a message comes up : one or more drawing views are scaled differently from the sheet. Some dimensions translated from these drawings may appear out of scale with any new dimensaions created in the target system.

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Permalink Reply by Deepak Gupta on March 12, 2011 at 6:11am

This means you have different scale s for sheet and views. You can set the options while saving as DXF. Set the saveas type to DXF and then click on options in the save window to change the settings.

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