SmDissolve

Platinum Platinum Platinum

Removes sheet metal data from the selected features.

The command can dissolve flanges, bends, bend reliefs and corner reliefs. Dissolved features are no longer listed in the Mechanical Browser. Faces of dissolved features can be moved, rotated or push-pulled freely.

Accessing the Command

command bar:  smdissolve

menu bar:  Sheet Metal | Dissolve

toolbar:  Sheet Metal |

: smdissolve

Prompts you in the command bar:

Select faces on models / <Entire model>: (Select a face or right click to select the entire model.)

Entities in set: 1

Select faces on models: (Select a face or right click to stop.)

Command Options

Related Commands

SmConvert - automatically recognizes flanges and bends in a 3D solid.

SmDelete - removes a bend or a junction by restoring a hard edge between two flanges; removes a flange with all the bends adjacent to it. The adjacent flanges are extended up to a junction configuration with the flange being deleted.

SmFlangeBase - creates a base (initial) flange of a sheet metal part from a closed planar profile.