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sw not creating default flat pattern config.
too make a long story short. i lost my hard drive monday morning and finally got everything back up and running late yesterday. i was using 2007 sp5.0 but, i only have the dvd for 2007 sp2.2. i don't know how the guy before me got sp5.0. we currently don't have maintenance (upgrading to 2009 w/main in jan.). this morning i created a couple sheetmetal parts and the "defaultsm-flat-pattern" config isn't there. i looked through the config setting, searched help and searched this board. is there a setting i'm overlooking or is this a known problem for this sp. approx. 75% of my models/drawings are sheetmetal and i really need this functionality. any help would be greatly appreciated.
on a side note a fresh install of everything made a big uptic in performance.
thanks
it usually does not create the flat pattern until you put it on a drawing. start a drawing, insert the sheet metal part and you should see the flat pattern configuration.
ok i'll say it, "i'm a dumb@$*". i guess it's just going to be one of those weeks. trying to hurry and make up for 2 days down time and end up not thinking everything all the way through.
actually i don't guess i've ever looked in the config of a sm part for the flat pattern before creating a drawing. i've always just suppressed & unsupressed in the model tree when working with the part.
i was adding a config to make temp lh/rh parts until i got everything sized right, before doing a save as, and noticed the flat wasn't there. so i created another sm part and it was the same way.
oh well, stuff happens!
thanks a million, smcadman.