Inventor Sheet Metal Forming

[Anonymous]

I am trying to create a dome feature that has 1/4" holes with 3/8" staggered center offests hat are patterned all the way around the dome. Is there a way to create a perforated sheet in sheet metal with these holes in it and then form it to create the dome feature? Or is there a way to pattern these holes in a dome at all?

As you can see in the attached image this is what we can get. Now if we try revolving it the top holes turn into a mess and because of the stagger the pattern we cant figure out how to do. I am hoping there is some type of form function that can do this...as i know there is most likely an easy way to do this, but we just cant figure it out.

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

You cannot do this from sheet metal.

There is no Easy Button solution.

Several Curve Driven Patterns will get you there.

[Anonymous]

Thank you...is there any way this is going to be offered in the future. It seems like it would be a time saver for many circumstances.

[JDMather]

I don't work for Autodesk, and in any case, they can't generally comment on future functionality.