Curved Surface To Sheet Metal

I ran through this very quick and messed up my terminology between transverse and longitudinal but hopefully it will still be helpful.

Curved surface to sheet metal.

Unwrapping may be necessary to produce sheet metal parts or textile parts. If the question refers to surfaces that are bent in only one direction but it is no sheet metal part. Aside from being difficult to produce stretching a flat surface in two directions challenges the constraints of the material itself. So what i did was build the extrude converted it to sheet metal driving surface and then added a bend feature selecting one of the end edges as the bend line the bend radius would be change from thickness to whatever diameter you are wrapping the label on to.

Sheetmetal from flat to curved. However they do not show up on your folded model. To fix this issue all that needs to be done is to adjust the cut extrude so that the edge of the. How can curved or bent surfaces be flattened or unwrapped in inventor.

Using multi point stretch forming and fiber reinforced composite laminates are subjected to in plane shearing deformations. Inventor help i about sheet metal parts. You have a curved surface on a sheet metal in inventor that you would like to punch perpendicular holes into. If the question refers to sheet metal parts follow the sheet metal workflows to unfold a sheet metal part.

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. At the macro scale for example flat sheet metal is plastically stretched to create double curved shells e g. This results in a curved seam edge. You attempt to make the holes in the flat pattern.