Unfolding Sheet Metal Components

You can unfold a sheet metal design and changes appear simultaneously in the unfolded component and in the original design.

Unfolded parts are not exported with the solid when you export a sheet metal part; however, you can explicitly export the unfolded part.

You can unfold the following types of walls, but you must right-click a planar face and not a cylinder or a cone:

• Planar walls
• Cylindrical walls, including large diameter cylinders (roll bends)
• Most conical walls, such as a part with variable radius round between arcs that was shelled and converted to a sheet metal part. Parts that are made with blends between radii also unfold reliably.
• Z bends and S bends, even when they neighbor a cylindrical or conical wall.
• Walls that includes holes that touch a bend or are included in an object that includes a bend.
• Double-walled parts that include a complex unbending edge.