Flatten in Sheet Metal help

Flatten in Sheet Metal help

NickErmis
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Flatten in Sheet Metal help

NickErmis
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Hello, I need some help with flattening this part in the sheet metal tab.  Everything is uninform and other forms I have been working on this week have been working properly.  However there is something about this design that just isn't working.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Many thanks to @TheCADWhisperer and  @Anonymous   for helping me get to this point so far!!

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HughesTooling
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These 2 faces are not parallel.

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Have to say, the timeline is a mess. Why have you deleted the sketches that created the original solid leaving the extrudes with errors? You could have just edited these to correct your part instead of just adding more features on top of existing geometry. 

 

You created the angle problem because you have auto project enabled and you then created an unconstrained sketch over the already projected edges. 

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Mark Hughes
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NickErmis
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Got it .. Thanks!!

 

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The mess is my inexperience honestly.   Usually only use Fusion on the Manufacturing side.

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HughesTooling
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@NickErmis wrote:

Got it .. Thanks!!

 


The mess is my inexperience honestly.   Usually only use Fusion on the Manufacturing side.


OK, but bear in mind you can edit the timeline if you make a mistake. It's not like the real world where you have to weld a bit back on.😉

 

Mark

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NickErmis
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You are not wrong. 

 

A little back round, this part as well as 6 others similar but different were created from a Mesh that was created by our Faro Arm scanner.  One of our full time designers could have done this in a fraction of the time.  But the process of creating CAD files off of a scan has been the goal.  Been a rough couple days but we have that capability now.

 

That's one reason I prefer to work with Fusion over Solidworks is the community in the forum. 

 

Thanks again.

 

Nick

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I rebuilt your model and have attached my new one since the timeline as a mess as @HughesTooling pointed out.  Also I have given you an assembly comparison between my reconstructed one and your original to point out some angle problems.  Both models are attached.

John Hackney, Retired
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