Open up the model, and go to the offending configuration and click on the ‘flatten’ button on the command manager: If you have a situation where one of your views is flat, or not flat, like it should be, the fix is pretty easy.
Once you make a drawing of a sheet metal part, SOLIDWORKS creates a derived configuration of this named DefaultSM-FLAT-PATTERN to be used in drawings. When you create a sheet metal part, you have 1 configuration: Default.
Understanding how SOLIDWORKS works with sheet metal parts can help us determine what is going on. You’ll either end up with a flat view of your bent part or, more commonly, you’ll wind up with a bent view of your flat pattern. With the first image above usually one or the other of these situations will occur. These are some pretty common sheet metal issues. Have you ever seen any of these sheet metal issues with SOLIDWORKS?
