Hello. I design large fuel/oil/water etc, holding tanks. I ran across this thread looking for a solution for the same exact issue.
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/HOW-TO-CREATE-A-FLAT-PATTERN-FOR-A-FLANGED-DISK/m-p/4...
You know, I have been trying to figure this out for a few months now, and was unsuccessful. I was looking around on here for a possible solution, turns out, there isn't one. The company I currently work for uses Inventor 2014. So sitting at home tonight, after finding this thread, I decided to try it on my 2010 Solidworks BASIC, and low and behold, it worked. It was simple. I extruded a disc, converted it to sheet metal, then created the flange, using the edge flange tool, to the desired hight with one click.... clicked; create flat pattern, voilà. THREE STEPS, not 42. What's the deal with Inventor or Autodesk in general? Why does everything I want to do, have to be so involved. I went to school for mechanical design and our main software curriculum was Inventor, with only one semester of Solidworks. Why anyone prefers Inventor to SW is beyond me! Not impressed at all. This is just one example of many, many more. Don't even get me started on BOM'S.
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