Printing out Paper Patterns from Inventor?

[Anonymous]

Greetings fellow Inventor Forum Members, Using Inventor 2015 I have modeled a bowl with a 12 inch diameter and it has a height of 6 inches. In other words, it looks like half of a sphere. My goal is to slice the bowl into 5 equal slices along the center vertical axis of the bowl. Then my goal is to flatten all five slices and print each slice on a piece of 11 x 17 inch paper. The purpose for all this is to have patterns I can use to cut thin sheet metal in the shapes of the slices I flattened within Inventor. With the 5 thin sheet metal pieces cut to the shape of the pattern I will then be able to curve the thin sheet metal and weld all of the 5 slices together and end up with the same bowl in thin sheet metal that I modeled in inventor. The problem I am having within Inventor is figuring out what command to use to flatten each of the 5 curved slices onto a plane. How do I get Inventor to convert a curved slice of the bowl and layout flat on a plane so that I can print it out onto a piece of 11x17 inch paper? Any tips on how I can make this happen will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for the help.

[JDMather]

Do you want a "sphere" or do you want what you had in your assembly?

(Refer to the image that I posted in message #17.  Did you not see that it does not go to the poles (this is your part file?))

[Anonymous]

Okay, I understand how to fix it! I didn't see that in my original part file. Thank you for pointing this out! 

[JDMather]

See the attached assembly.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much this helped a lot! Have a nice day! 

[Anonymous]

The intent is to create a 1/4 sphere with an inside diameter of 42 inches (pole to pole measure)

[Anonymous]

JDMather,

Thank you for the assistance.  

We hadn't thought about using a triangle to create the petal, very ingenious.  The goal for Chetna (she is our Co-Op) is to create 1/4 of a sphere with a 42" diameter (pole-pole) measure. 

It will be utilized in a material deflection plate to ensure a better containment than original design.  

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:
....inside diameter of 42 inches 

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I set kFactor = 0 for no bend deduction on inside radius for the template.

No calculations are needed.

Simply edit radius (and angle if more gores desired).

Inventor will take care of the rest.