https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992145#M62310 <P>Thank you!<BR /><BR />Will give it a look tomorrow, getting late here and I better head off to bed. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:02:01 GMT fredrik.fast 2022-03-08T20:02:01Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992023#M62308 <P>Hello.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I would really appreciate some help with this project.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am trying to unfold an eccentric cone.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I've made a model which looks like this.</P><P>The model I am showing does not have a slit in it, I have tried to slit it and extrude a flat surface of which I can convert/unfold from but it does not work no matter what I try.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Fusion simply throws an error saying it can not calculate the body thickness when trying to convert it into sheet metal.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Please feel free to give it a try.</P><P>And if unfolding this part is impossible, please point me in the direction where I can learn to do it by hand (the old fashioned way). I am not very familiar with the English terminology in this area so I have difficulties getting good search results.</P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:18:28 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992023#M62308 fredrik.fast 2022-03-08T19:18:28Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992122#M62309 <P><A href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5izJt_zvN29W2cEFHAK949eImc9xFOT" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5izJt_zvN29W2cEFHAK949eImc9xFOT</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>That isn't geometrically a cone - not sure it will work.</P><P>But it seems to me like I have gotten it to work in the past...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Well, I got this one to work...</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="TheCADWhisperer_1-1646770610421.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1033931i9DD03DCEA7875E5B/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="TheCADWhisperer_1-1646770610421.png" alt="TheCADWhisperer_1-1646770610421.png" /></span></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="TheCADWhisperer_2-1646770624846.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1033933i16B6105C83B52603/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="TheCADWhisperer_2-1646770624846.png" alt="TheCADWhisperer_2-1646770624846.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:17:32 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992122#M62309 TheCADWhisperer 2022-03-08T20:17:32Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992145#M62310 <P>Thank you!<BR /><BR />Will give it a look tomorrow, getting late here and I better head off to bed. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:02:01 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992145#M62310 fredrik.fast 2022-03-08T20:02:01Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992233#M62311 <P>Create your sheet metal body right beside your attempt.&nbsp; If you need a Screencast on how it was created, let me know.&nbsp; Model is attached.</P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:31:08 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992233#M62311 jhackney1972 2022-03-08T20:31:08Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992259#M62312 <P>Thank you very much!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If you would be so kind to show me so I can learn I would appreciate it a lot. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":grinning_face:">😀</span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Goodnight for now. I will check back tomorrow.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:38:11 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992259#M62312 fredrik.fast 2022-03-08T20:38:11Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992295#M62313 <P>Here is a Screencast showing the development of your eccentric cone.&nbsp; By the way, you can place the wall gap in any location you desire.&nbsp; &nbsp;I will attach the model again so you can follow along.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><IFRAME src="https://screencast.autodesk.com/Embed/Timeline/09dec0d7-e2c8-4121-b85b-b63f8a200e48" width="960" height="850" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen"></IFRAME></P> Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:52:58 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10992295#M62313 jhackney1972 2022-03-08T20:52:58Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10994243#M62314 <P>Wow. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":hugging_face:">🤗</span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I really appreciate it.</P> Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:25:17 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/unfolding-an-eccentric-cone/m-p/10994243#M62314 fredrik.fast 2022-03-09T16:25:17Z