Creating Flat State Drawing Template

[praveen1986]

I am working in a company which is in
sheet-metal development & manufacturing.
We use ProE WF4.0. I have created one template in which I
added general & projection views of the part.
A title block With date, scale, thickness parameters.
I want to insert a flat state (blank, unbent) of the part
on same drawing sheet. These blank than we need to give
to manufacturing department.
Currently we do blanks through
Edit->Setup->ShtMetal->FlatState->Fully Flat & put it
into drawing sheet. Since we are in sheetmetal, we need
to develop hundreds of blanks everyday & this becomes a
very time consuming & long procedure to this.
There must be some trick, some parameter, some programme
which will make my work easier.
All experts from mcadcentral.com, Take this as a
challenge & solve this issue.

Once again briefly I want to explain, I want to create a
template with bend part views & flat state (unbent) view
coming automatically in my drawing.
I know litle about parameters & programmes, so if there
is any way please explain me.

 

[jdurston]

You would have to do this with Pro/TOOLKIT or Jlink or some development tool as I don't believer the template functionality can automatically assign a secondary model based on the original (generic) model you select. You might want to check the Development forums. Perhaps, a 3rd party tool already exists which you can purchase.

 

[mstols]

This can be done easily.

follow these steps:
1)Create you sheetmetal part.

2)do not create a plat state. Do the following. Create an unbend feature. Create a bend back feature.
Then create a simplified rep in the part that exludes the bend back feature.

3) create a drawing template. Place the first template view as a general view with the master rep in it.
then create a 2nd template view also as a general view with the simplified rep in it. Make sure that the rep name in the part is always the same as the one in your drawing.

4)Now create your drawing for your sheetmetal part using your template.

 

[praveen1986]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MSTOLS,THATS NICE WAY.

WHAT IS THE DIFFRENCE IN CREATING A FLAT FROM EDIT>SETUP &
UNBEND FEATURE.

 

[mstols]

edit, setup, flate state is a semi automated way for ProE to create an unbend feature, and then create a new family table instance that includes the unbend feature. it resumes it in the flatstate and suppresses it in the generic of the family table.

Flatten Form feature is used to flatten puched features only.