topic Re: Auger flight flat pattern in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Auger flight flat pattern

benzlerW44MW — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:28:04 GMT

Hi guys,

First post here. Please be gentle.

I am trying to convert from Inventor to Fusion and now I am stuck at creating a flat pattern for a screw conveyor auger. I can draw it similar to how I did it in Inventor - by creating a surface loft between two coils (instead of spirals) and thicken it but when I try to convert into sheet metal it fails. Fusion "can't calculate body thickness".

Any advise? Screenshot from Inventor below.

Edit: attached Fusion design

Re: Auger flat pattern

g-andresen — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:21:42 GMT

Hi,

please share your design.

günther

Re: Auger flat pattern

benzlerW44MW — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:29:16 GMT

Hi, added design now.

Re: Auger flat pattern

g-andresen — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:38:25 GMT

Hi,

@benzlerW44MW wrote:
Hi, added design now.

Where?

günther

Re: Auger flat pattern

lichtzeichenanlage — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:32:21 GMT

1st post

Re: Auger flat pattern

benzlerW44MW — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:32:11 GMT

It's attached under the inventor image. Attaching it here as well.

Re: Auger flight flat pattern

Beyondforce — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:08:51 GMT

Hey @benzlerW44MW ,

I hope this will help you:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/ccbf9032-2e36-42bd-9d33-42a4c9e628bf

Cheers / Ben
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Re: Auger flight flat pattern

davebYYPCU — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 12:37:30 GMT

Did you read the question? I watched to the end, maybe you have 2 videos?

Maybe the next one for the answer? please.

Re: Auger flight flat pattern

Beyondforce — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:54:43 GMT

Yep, it was my mistake!
I have checked the sheet metal issue, and I couldn't do it as well. So I tried another twisted shape and it didn't either, so I'm guessing it's either a bug or a limitation.

Re: Auger flight flat pattern

davebYYPCU — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 02:39:02 GMT

Slept on the problem, overnight I remembered this one,

Meshmixer fix

Message 2, will get you there, I think.

Edit; Worked for me, tip - extrude the plate in Mesh Mixer, so the there is thickness to section with fit curves to section back in Fusion....

Might help....