SheetMetal - Flange Creation fails with UNDEFINED ERROR

[Anonymous]

As shown in the screencast, I get the message "UNDEFINED ERROR".

The Message "UNDEFINED ERROR" does not help a lot.

I don't have a clue what is wrong.
Can you please improve that error message?

[pawel.potyrala]

Hi @Anonymous,

thanks for posting and sharing the screencast!

Would you be able to send me a link to the design? I would like to test it to figure out why the flange creation is failing.

If you do not want to post it here, you can send it to me in a private message. Thanks!

Best regards,

[Anonymous]

Hi Paweł,

I can share the design, its attached to this post.

Thanks for your effort.

[TheCADWhisperer]

I was able to get this hybrid modeling technique to work.

[Anonymous]

Thank, that looks good!

It generates a nice flat panel 🙂

Where do I find that extrude(?) command you used? Is it the regular extrude? If yes, how do I select single lines instead of a closed contour?

[TheCADWhisperer]

In the Surface Modeling tools.

Your entire part could have been simplified a bit, but I just used what you presented.

[HughesTooling]

Here's another way creating 4 flanges then combine.

Mark

[pawel.potyrala · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

thank you once again for reporting this. I reached out to our developers with a request to change the produced error message to be more specific.

@HughesTooling @TheCADWhisperer thank you for providing the workarounds!

Best regards,