How do I get unregular cylinder side surface (not a top or bottom one) unfolded, so I could see it all in one plane?
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@Stan72 wrote:
How do I get unregular cylinder side surface (not a top or bottom one) unfolded, so I could see it all in one plane?
Here's an example for a very particular situation. Something could be developed with a similar approach to draw, say, the shape of the unrolled end of a cylinder sliced off by an angled plane, with numerical values for the radius and cutting angle. But it generates the unrolled shapes from numerical pipe sizes and angle of intersection, not from a 3D Solid entity if that's what you mean. [I wouldn't be surprised if certain overlay programs [such as Inventor, maybe?] have functions to do what you want, but I couldn't say.]
www.Solid3dtech.com has a tool which can easily unfold the cylinder or other surfaces.
Autodesk has a software called Autodesk Inventor that will create flat patterns.
The CADWhisperer YouTube Channel