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export sketches together with the flattened development of a sheet

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I have a folded sheet part. There are sketches created on the fixed face and bent face. If I get out of dxf, I get various options including... "crash" that is precisely. in the dxf file exported however, sketches no trace.
the sketches present on the folded face are also well transformed when active flat repetition, but at the time of export they are not passed to the dxf
Does anyone know why? Thank you.
 

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curiosity, because I never had to export.
But with that option, do you export the crease sketches? Or even those?
 
curiosity, because I never had to export.
But with that option, do you export the crease sketches? Or even those?
I know, it also exports the fold lines, but it does not write the direction. you can however set the mapping for export so that it differs the direction of fold
 
I know, it also exports the fold lines, but it does not write the direction. you can however set the mapping for export so that it differs the direction of fold
was to better understand his problem.
if you non are exported all sketches or only those who do it (see squares, circles etc...)
 
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I do not know much because personally I preferred to always pass through drawing; an extra step but the safety to indicate the correct bend direction.
 
Yes, it exports the fold lines without problems and you can intervene with the mapping as it says massive. This direct export I need to create cutting files for laser and fold lines are engraved by laser instead of being cut. I also have a macro, which we have developed here on the forum, which automates this export. the files thus obtained can be used almost without any modification on two-dimensional cads ( manually reduce the fold lines to 1 or 2 cm instead of complete to save machine time).
Now, often, these engraved and not laser-cut references can also be used as a welding reference, instead of as bending references. at this moment we put them by hand on two-dimensional cads on the dxf files, but I would like them to be inserted in the solidworks model and exported together with the rest. this would help a lot of work, especially in the case of exporting parts with numerous different configurations.
 
the engravings for welding I have always exported them making a cut of a few tenths; in this way the export returns the contour shape. I subsequently eliminated the cutting function.
 

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