When SolidWorks Sheet Metal Can't Model Your Part — 5 Geometry Patterns the Modeller Chokes On
A SolidWorks fab shop posted a sheet metal failure on Reddit last month. Their part had two L-flanges meeting at a corner with a small fold-back tab on one of them. The Sheet Metal feature kept throwing “Failed to compute flat pattern”, and after an afternoon of fighting it, they exported the DXF anyway, opened it in AutoCAD, and finished the cut profile by hand. Twenty-eight upvotes on a comment showing a five-step rebuild that worked for someone else but not them. ...