Unfolding an eccentric cone?

[fredrik.fast]

Hello.

I would really appreciate some help with this project.

I am trying to unfold an eccentric cone. 

I've made a model which looks like this.

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.

Fusion simply throws an error saying it can not calculate the body thickness when trying to convert it into sheet metal.

Please feel free to give it a try.

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.

[TheCADWhisperer]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5izJt_zvN29W2cEFHAK949eImc9xFOT

That isn't geometrically a cone - not sure it will work.

But it seems to me like I have gotten it to work in the past...

Well, I got this one to work...

[fredrik.fast]

Thank you!

Will give it a look tomorrow, getting late here and I better head off to bed. 🙂

[jhackney1972]

Create your sheet metal body right beside your attempt.  If you need a Screencast on how it was created, let me know.  Model is attached.

[fredrik.fast]

Thank you very much!

If you would be so kind to show me so I can learn I would appreciate it a lot. 😀

Goodnight for now. I will check back tomorrow.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Here is a Screencast showing the development of your eccentric cone.  By the way, you can place the wall gap in any location you desire.   I will attach the model again so you can follow along.

[fredrik.fast]

Wow. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. 🤗

I really appreciate it.