SheetMetal UnattendedUnfold

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SheetMetal UnattendedUnfold

Menu location
SheetMetal → Unattended Unfold
Workbenches
SheetMetal
Default shortcut
U
Introduced in version
-
See also
SheetMetal Unfold

Description

The Unattended Unfold command unfolds a sheet metal object.

This command is not available by default, see Notes.

If the parent body of a selected planar face has been subject to unfolding before, this command will skip the menu in the task panel. Otherwise it will show an error message asking for either "set a Manual K-factor" or "use a Material Definition Sheet".

With the first use of the Unfold command the parent body's label received a suffix (such as _material_0.5din) and after that it is ready to be used with this command.

Usage

  1. Select one planar face of a sheet metal part.
  2. Activate the UnattendedUnfold command using one of the following:

Notes

To make this command available, first enable Engineering Mode in the preferences. Go to Edit → Preferences → SheetMetal → General Settings, and set Engineering UX Mode to Enabled. Changing this preference requires a restart of FreeCAD.

Properties

See also: Property editor.

A SheetMetal Unfold object is derived from a Part Feature object and inherits all its properties. It has no additional properties, but its label has a default value:

Data

Base

  • DataLabel (String): Default value: Unfold (+ a sequential number for second and following items).
    The user editable name of this object, it may be any arbitrary UTF8 string.

Limitations

See Unfold for limitations.