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Anonymous
822 Vistas, 7 Respuestas

flatten surfaces without loosing shape

Hello dear friends. 

I want to lasercut simple 3d object on my laser on Stainless steel 1mm sheet and TIG weld the object back. 

In AutoCad. 

I create Mesh sphere Cntl select half and erase. What is left I explode to surfaces. 

Now I want to put all my 12 surfaces to Z 0 without loosing any sizes or shapes.  Remember I will put peaces back in half sphere 3d shape after cutting. 

FLATTEN command not good for me I guess.  

To do all this by hend,  have no time. This is only first try.  Will do more complicated objects after. 

Please advice  someting. May me LISP (free) ;).

I do not like external programmes.  It get messy for me. I an not pro. 

I try unwrap in 3dmax

Still learning how to slice in unwrap. 

Also try Blender, Papercut utility.  No success. 

SliceforFusion very good programm but do not like triangular surfaces program offers me for cutting.  

Please help. 

 

Thank you for your time and effort! 

 

leeminardi
en respuesta a: Anonymous

If you want to approximate the sphere with pedal shaped panels here's an option.  Use this site to create a dxf file and then edit in AutoCAD.

lee.minardi
Anonymous
en respuesta a: leeminardi

Nice,  didn't know about  this site.  Lovely and free!  :cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa:

But my idea was to create simple panda from metal.  Sculpture. 

Anonymous
en respuesta a: Anonymous

I just used 3dalign command, it is works but taking ages to complete complicated shape. 

 

schulz8NPAP
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Can you please upload the (facetted) surface model?

Regards

Jochen

www.black-cad.de

leeminardi
en respuesta a: Anonymous

What is the object type of the panels before they are repositioned to the xy plane (e.g., polyline, region,...)?

lee.minardi
Anonymous
en respuesta a: leeminardi

The objects are 3d faces. Can actualy convert to polyline via hatch and hatch outline erase hatch. 

schulz8NPAP
en respuesta a: Anonymous

Sorry, my example is "Half of a cow" - and beeing honestly - I didn't do the mesh of the cow.

Regards

Jochen

www-black-cad.de