Having an issue generating a flat pattern from a solid body. Basically what I will need to do to make the part once I've fit checked everything with 3d printed parts is unfold it and generate a dxf to feed to the laser to cut out a part. I'm uncomfortably outside of my wheelhouse here, as my day to day life involves machining parts from solid rather than sheet metal work, so bear with me...
So far I have tried:
-Directly converting the solid body into a sheet metal part and using "generate flat pattern"
-results in a model error, tells me to check the model and "try again.SM_MODEL_ERROR"
-to eliminate the possibilty of thickness errors, Surface>offset one side of the model -> thicken that surface to my sheet metal thickness -> convert that into sheet metal -> generate flat pattern or unfold
-both generate the same SM_MODEL_ERROR
I'm doing something wrong, just not sure what.
