Curved Surface To Sheet Metal

If the question refers to sheet metal parts follow the sheet metal workflows to unfold a sheet metal part.

Curved surface to sheet metal.

You have a curved surface on a sheet metal in inventor that you would like to punch perpendicular holes into. Sheetmetal from flat to curved. This results in a curved seam edge. When applying the insert bends feature located on the sheet metal toolbar or from the insert dropdown menu under sheet metal solidworks tells us a non linear edge at the seam of this cone is invalid.

Unwrapping may be necessary to produce sheet metal parts or textile parts. To fix this issue all that needs to be done is to adjust the cut extrude so that the edge of the. Using multi point stretch forming and fiber reinforced composite laminates are subjected to in plane shearing deformations. At the macro scale for example flat sheet metal is plastically stretched to create double curved shells e g.

See more about our p. The basic tips for making holes in the sheet metal in inventor the problem of holes made in flat pattern and folded model. Creating single curvature into sheet metal is easy like rolling a piece of paper into a tube but double curvature presents significant challenges in manufacturing. If the question refers to surfaces that are bent in only one direction but it is no sheet metal part.

Inventor help i about sheet metal parts. How can curved or bent surfaces be flattened or unwrapped in inventor. I ran through this very quick and messed up my terminology between transverse and longitudinal but hopefully it will still be helpful. You attempt to make the holes in the flat pattern.