Sheet Metal 3D sketch issue

Hello all,

I've been trying to create a simple sheet metal part using a 3d sketch rather than a 2d sketch. I need it to be 3d so that I can coincide lines with planes. Anyways, soliworks crashes when I go to create the base sheet metal part, is this a bug?

here are my steps:

  1. create new drawing
  2. create 3d sketch and make a simple (3 lines) open outline (all 3 lines are parallel to the right plane)
  3. create base flange/tab after this solidworks crashes, any ideas?

sw2004 sp3.0

Anders

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arasmussen
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for your example, do not start with base flange instead create a thin extrude, then convert to sheetmetal.

Reply to
kenneth b

You can't extrude a 3D sketch at all (unless they added this ability in

2004). If all of your sketches are in a single plane and you can't use the constraints in a 2D sketch by itself. Try making a 2d sketch on the plane you want and convert entities from the 3d sketch.

Corey

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Corey Scheich

those minor details ... :)

Reply to
kenneth b

Yeah, it be there now... but you need to specify a direction.

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Mike J. Wilson

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