If this does not work for you, or for further assistance, please contact our HawkSupport team at 87(US) or 86(Canada) and. The flat pattern drawing view should now show the correctly flattened part. Open the drawing and refresh the view pallet to update the drawing views.You can do this by either clicking the “Flatten” button, OR manually un-suppressing the Flat-Pattern feature in the feature tree.
Ensure that the configuration is properly flattened.Click the dropdown next to the active configuration and double click to activate the 'SM-FLAT-PATTERN' derived configuration.Open the part file in question and click the configurations tab.When functioning normally, this derived configuration SHOULD have the flat pattern feature unsuppressed in the part’s feature tree, however it is easy to accidentally suppress/unflatten it. Whenever you insert a sheet metal part into a drawing, SOLIDWORKS automatically creates a derived configuration in the part file for the flat pattern. In most cases, this happens because the sheet metal part file’s flat pattern configuration is not correctly flattened.
This article provides troubleshooting steps to diagnose why a flat pattern drawing view is not showing the flattened state in a SOLIDWORKS drawing. Whenever you insert a sheet metal part into a drawing, SOLIDWORKS automatically creates a derived configuration in the part file for the flat pattern.
