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How To Convert Part to Sheet Metal and Unfold.

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Message 1 of 9
swilkinson28
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How To Convert Part to Sheet Metal and Unfold.

I have a part I would like to convert to sheet metal and unfold for laser cutting, but I am having difficulty in acheiving this. I have shelled the part to a 3mm thickness and my sheet metal defaults align with this, but I cannot unfold the part. Please help.

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WHolzwarth
in reply to: swilkinson28

You'd better do it like this (2015 file)

Walter

Walter Holzwarth

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Message 3 of 9
swilkinson28
in reply to: WHolzwarth

Brilliant, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, many thanks. Did you convert my part, or redraw it as sheet metal? If you did convert, can you give me a brief walkthrough of what you did? Thanks again.

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WHolzwarth
in reply to: swilkinson28

I re-modeled it after some measurements in your part. Converting a solid like that to sheetmetal would result in lots of headaches.

Walter Holzwarth

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JDMather
in reply to: swilkinson28

A slightly different technique attached.


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swilkinson28
in reply to: JDMather

Thanks again. How was this achieved to make it different?

Message 7 of 9
JDMather
in reply to: swilkinson28

The feature history tree tells the story.

The master of Inventor masters the reading of the history.

 

Edit Sketch1 - examine and recreate in a new file.

Edit Sketch2 - examine and recreate in a new file.

Continue on with the steps in the history and post back if you get stuck on a step.

 

(You might note that if you delete both the Face1 and Contour Flange1 features - that all the information needed to complete the part is still there in the sketches.)

 

You might start here -

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/p/inventor-tutorials.html


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JDMather
in reply to: swilkinson28

Did you figure it out?


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Message 9 of 9
swilkinson28
in reply to: JDMather

I think so, thanks again. It's a pity you can't convert and unfold a part like this easily, as this is the kind of drawing I get sent on a regular basis. Not to worry, thanks again.

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