Use SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Bounding Box to create Flat Pattern Data

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Several times in my career I’ve had rush jobs that need an estimate right away, or, the material might be a long lead request/special order coming from another city or in some cases a different country. This will add length, width thickness and volume – I suggest adding in weight as well. What this bounding box creation as well was add these custom properties into a BOM and placed it on the drawing. I then deleted the dimensions that the Bounding Box created to clean up the drawing. Choose where to save the BOM style but just make sure that SOLIDWORKS is linked to it when you go to do this again.

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