The following drawing sheet features and operations apply to the sheets generated by the Cutting Profile feature:

• Sheet scale. CUSTOMTOOLS Cutting Profile feature generates the cutting sheets always using the 1:1 scale.
• Display mode. The Display mode setting of the Cutting Profile output sheets is set as Hidden lines removed. For that reason, the bending lines and other invisible lines of the view(s) are hidden in the output sheet.
• Annotations. All annotations like dimensions and notes are removed from the output sheet.
• View Order. Views in the output sheet are ordered so that the views in the output sheet are not interleaved.

NOTE: Detached drawings are currently not supported by the CUSTOMTOOLS Cutting Profile feature.

The flat view in a drawing's cutting sheet created by the Cutting Profile, references to the SMFlatPattern model configuration which is created automatically to the referenced model if it does not already exist. For that reason the referenced model should be saved before running the Cutting Profile command against the drawing.

Because of the new configurations' creation to the referenced models, the models processed by the Cutting Profile operation are opened during the process and they become unsaved. The unsaved models are left open after the operation to indicate the user to save the unsaved changes in them. If the referenced models are already open during the Cutting Profile process, they are just left open to indicate the user to save the unsaved changes. In these cases the unsaved changes are the new configurations created by CUSTOMTOOLS.

The following pictures describe how the Cutting Profile works in practise:

This picture represent a measuring sheet of the drawing created from a bended sheet metal plate which have holes on the bended sides.	This picture is taken from DXF Sheet generated by the CUSTOMTOOLS Cutting Profile feature.

When performing the Cutting Profile command to a drawing that already has a sheet created by the Cutting Profile, you get prompted whether you want to append or overwrite the existing sheet.

Append	Appends the existing sheet by adding another instance of the part into the existing sheet created by the Cutting Profile.
Overwrite	Creates a new sheet to be used with the CNC machine by replacing the existing sheet created by the Cutting Profile.
Cancel	Cancels the Cutting Profile action. The DXF sheet is not created or the existing DXF sheet is not removed on the operation cancellation.

Drawing sheet generated by CUSTOMTOOLS Cutting Profile feature is not used to be modified by the user. The sheet which was active while the Cutting Profile operation was started, is left as the active sheet once the Cutting Profile operation is finished.

Multibody parts are not supported by the CUSTOMTOOLS Cutting Profile feature. To make the dxf files with the flatten views from your multibody parts, please use the CUSTOMTOOLS Print/Convert feature in the File Conversion mode.

The Cutting Profile feature consider special holes in components like the countersunk holes and the holes that has other special features like a chamfer, a fillet or a draft applied. The special features are handled so that only the cut-out of the hole itself is marked in the drawing sheet created. Outer bounds of the holes' special feature (countersunk, chamfer, fillet, draft) are not included in a hole marking in the sheet created by the Cutting Profile feature.

NOTE: The Cutting Profile feature consider inlays in components that are not supposed to be cut through the plate also as holes. Inlays considered as holes could cause mistakes while cutting the plates using the cutting machines. The user need to consider this while using the Cutting Profile feature.