topic Re: Flat pattern of curved edge in Fusion Support Forum

Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:06:16 GMT

I'm currently working on an infinity pool edge and need to create a flat pattern of this lip so I can have my CNC machine cut the appropriate piece out. I can create a Flat pattern of "Body 4" easily but can't find a way to get one of "body 5".... any suggestions?

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:46:46 GMT

Sketches are not fully defined?

(Blue geometry should keep you up at nights.)

Separate sheet metal should be as Components.

Back in a bit...

Do you want the vertical height here or the aligned length?

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:36:36 GMT

the curve needs to be 2 9/16 from the chord over an 8ft long curve.... if that makes sense. its a curved pool edge so the vertical piece will be bolted to the edge and water will flow over the angle edge

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:50:28 GMT

bump for any help! Really not sure why this doesn't just work but need to get things sorted so I can order materials for this job... Thanks!

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:46:27 GMT

updated file, everything is now constrained and happy. still can't convert to sheet metal and get a flat pattern...

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:36:21 GMT

Uhm, the solution was Attached to the original response yesterday.

If you need to change any of the dimensions - simply double click on the dimension.

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:56:33 GMT

sorry! didn't realize what you had done there but I get it now... sorta. I looked through the timeline and get how you did everything expect the "cylindrical" and "conical" commands, I can't find those in the software at all??

also, sorry for my lack of correct terminology here, CAD is definitely not my forte

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 11:08:14 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I looked through the timeline and get how you did everything expect the "cylindrical" and "conical" commands, I can't find those in the software at all??

There is no "cylindrical" and "conical" command.

I simply renamed those components to facilitate communication.

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:17:45 GMT

ok, so are those just flanges?

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:18:32 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
ok, so are those just flanges?

It's all recorded in the Timeline - step-by-step.

Like baking a cake from a recipe.

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:16:54 GMT

I understand the timeline and mostly how to use it but what I don't get is how you went from a 2 dimension sweep to a 3d component. when I click on that action in the timeline all it does is highlight the component but doesn't give me any info about what happened at that step??

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:24:19 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I understand the timeline… …when I click on that action in the timeline all it does is highlight the component…

Right click Edit.

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:06:40 GMT

tried that, edit isn't an option...??

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:15:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I understand the timeline and mostly how to use it ....

Uhmm, the Timeline is at the bottom of the screen.

Have you gone through the Learning and Documentation tutorials?

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:47:11 GMT

sorry, yes. It doesn't matter where I left click, I get the same menu:

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

TheCADWhisperer — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:26:34 GMT

Right!

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

davebYYPCU — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 21:53:01 GMT

For that particular icon, (Create Component) Likely there is no edit feature function.

Step along to the create offset and Thicken for the menu items to populate....

Might help.....

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:15:13 GMT

maybe that's what I'm missing, what do you mean by "create offset"? I don't see that in the timeline at all. sorry for all this back and forth, I have 5 of these pieces to design to fit the full length of this pool edge and they all have different dimensions so I need to know how to do this start to finish

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

davebYYPCU — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 03:13:09 GMT

My mistake, not Offset,

but Surface Extrude -> Create SM Component (activate) -> Thicken, as New Body, Convert to SM and

Sweep -> Create SM Component (activate) -> Thicken as New Body, convert to SM.

Create Flat Patterns.

I use Create Offset a lot and misread the icons.

Might help....

Re: Flat pattern of curved edge

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:29:01 GMT

so this still doesn't make sense. per your timeline which I can follow until the sheet metal:

Create sketch, create offset plane, create sketch, extrude vertical curved face, sweep angled face, magically make sheet metal???