{"id":655,"date":"2013-10-09T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=655"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:21:46","slug":"solidworks-part-reviewer-imported-sheet-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2013\/10\/solidworks-part-reviewer-imported-sheet-metal.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Imported Sheet Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sheet-metal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-657\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sheet-metal-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"sheet metal\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sheet-metal-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sheet-metal-615x257.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sheet-metal-120x50.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sheet-metal.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Sheet Metal:\u00a0<\/strong>The imported sheetmetal model was mostly valid . After using Insert&gt;Sheet Metal&gt;Bends, the part would *mostly* unfold if received in STEP or Parasolid. There was nothing we could do to make it, or even a section of it, unfold when imported as an IGES from its source.\u00a0Based on this experience, try to default to a STEP or Parasolid if you can!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Moderate-Correct-and-Flatten-Imported-Sheet-Metal.zip\">Moderate-Correct-and-Flatten-Imported-Sheet-Metal<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Complexity<\/strong>: Moderate<br \/>\n<strong>Features used<\/strong>: Tangency, Flatten, Pattern<\/p>\n<p>View all the Part Reviewer Tutorials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/parts\/supplier\/SOLIDWORKS-Part-Reviewer.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheet Metal:\u00a0The imported sheetmetal model was mostly valid . After using Insert&gt;Sheet Metal&gt;Bends, the part would *mostly* unfold if received in STEP or Parasolid. There was nothing we could do to make it, or even a section of it, unfold<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2013\/10\/solidworks-part-reviewer-imported-sheet-metal.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,539,21,34,35],"tags":[42,44,60,62],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-part-reviewer-tutorials","category-solidworks","category-support","category-tips-tricks","tag-part-reviewer","tag-sheet-metal","tag-tech-tip","tag-technical-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/12648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}