Curved Surface To Sheet Metal

If the question refers to sheet metal parts follow the sheet metal workflows to unfold a sheet metal part.

Curved surface to sheet metal.

You attempt to make the holes in the flat pattern. If the question refers to surfaces that are bent in only one direction but it is no sheet metal part. At the macro scale for example flat sheet metal is plastically stretched to create double curved shells e g. I ran through this very quick and messed up my terminology between transverse and longitudinal but hopefully it will still be helpful.

See more about our p. So what i did was build the extrude converted it to sheet metal driving surface and then added a bend feature selecting one of the end edges as the bend line the bend radius would be change from thickness to whatever diameter you are wrapping the label on to. Sheetmetal from flat to curved. Unwrapping may be necessary to produce sheet metal parts or textile parts.

Aside from being difficult to produce stretching a flat surface in two directions challenges the constraints of the material itself. How can curved or bent surfaces be flattened or unwrapped in inventor. The basic tips for making holes in the sheet metal in inventor the problem of holes made in flat pattern and folded model. When applying the insert bends feature located on the sheet metal toolbar or from the insert dropdown menu under sheet metal solidworks tells us a non linear edge at the seam of this cone is invalid.

This results in a curved seam edge. To fix this issue all that needs to be done is to adjust the cut extrude so that the edge of the. However they do not show up on your folded model. You have a curved surface on a sheet metal in inventor that you would like to punch perpendicular holes into.