You can now collect technological information for sheet metal holes and
threads that are present in a feature or a body.
Benefits: If you create a pattern of a feature, technological results are created
automatically for replicated instances. You can also create technological information
for pasted bodies. For more information, see Generating Technological Results.
Cutout Command
You can now select an ordered tool (tool body or ordered geometric set) as
the input profile to create a cutout.
Benefits: Selecting an ordered tool eases the sheet metal design workflow.
Export Using Download Compatibility
You can now export sheet metal parts using the downward compatibility mode.
Benefits: The 3dxml that contains the sheet metal parts is exported As
Result.
R2022x GA
Ability to Calculate Unfolded Length Using Bend Allowance and Bend
Deduction
You can now use the bend allowance or bend deduction as methods for
calculating the sheet metal unfolded length.
Creating extrusions. For more information, see Extruding.
Recognizing features.
Benefits: Previously, you could only use the K-factor as the method for calculating the
sheet metal unfolded length. You could use bend deduction only if it was defined through
the standards. Now, you can choose between the K-factor, bend allowance, bend deduction,
or in some cases, the bend deduction table defined in the standards (if
any).
Limiting Geometry Enhancements for All Swept Walls Commands
When creating any kind of swept wall (flanges, hems, tear drops, and user
flanges), you have more options when defining relimitations.
Define different offsets to the left and to the right side of the input
spine.
Swap the left and right sides of the input spine.
Specify one limit only.
Benefits: Points, planes, or surfaces are no longer your only options to define the left
and right limits of the input spine. Furthermore, both limits are no longer mandatory.
This improves the user experience.
You can now recognize surfaces and nonconstant thickness solids as sheet
metal features. To do so, the Recognize dialog box now offers
three recognition modes.
Recognize 3D shape of constant thickness: Converts a 3D shape that has a constant thickness into a sheet
metal shape. Also works with ordered geometrical sets.
Note:
This mode corresponds to
the Recognize command that was available in earlier
releases.
Before recognize After recognize
Create sheet metal shape from selected faces:
Creates a sheet metal shape from selected faces of a 3D shape that does not have a
constant thickness.
Input shape Resulting Sheet Metal Feature
Recognize Surface:
Converts a surface into a sheet metal shape.
Before surface recognize After surface recognize
Benefits: You can now recognize additional elements as sheet metal
features.
You can no longer open dialog boxes with the legacy appearance.
Therefore, the Open dialog boxes with legacy appearance
option is removed from Me > Preferences.
Benefits: You can now access only the dialog boxes with the new display.
Simplification of the Result when Creating a Wall or a Wall on Edge
When creating walls, tangent walls on edge, walls on edge with clearance, or
sketch based tangent walls on edge, the results faces are now simplified, provided the
input support faces are planar.
Benefits: This capability eases the sheet metal design workflow.
or pocket cutouts 
. 
: Converts a 3D shape that has a constant thickness into a sheet
metal shape. Also works with ordered geometrical sets.Note: This mode corresponds to the Recognize command that was available in earlier releases.
:
Creates a sheet metal shape from selected faces of a 3D shape that does not have a
constant thickness. 
:
Converts a surface into a sheet metal shape.
> Preferences.