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schopra-21-Visitor
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July 19, 2014
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how to convert this tube into sheetmetal

  • July 19, 2014
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i have been trying to convert this tube into sheetmetal.i have used shell command to do it but its not happening.

i have tried it using publish geomerty and then copy the surface to new part and then flattening the quilt here it say unalble to regenerate the part.can anyone suggest where am i going wrong.

Best answer by TomD.inPDX

This is a quick video:

Video Link : 5146

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 19, 2014

Sorry but I still cannot open education versions.

Sheetmetal typically expects cubical stuff, not pipes. For unbends that are more than a general bend radius, it needs to know about an axis.

Flatten quilt is also a tricky command. You should be able to do this with a simple zero offset surface.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 19, 2014

flatten_quilt.PNG

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schopra-21-VisitorAuthor
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July 19, 2014

sir how to specify the point in flatten quilt which the software asks

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DavorGranic16-Pearl
16-Pearl
July 19, 2014

Flatten quilt can be inaccurate if you are unbending sheetmetal that is bent in 2 directions. Tho in your case better option would be to draw new pipe without cutouts then make sketched rip. Then make those cutouts. Or if its imported part copy surfaces of those cutouts into your new part with whole pipe and then use solidify to cut pipe as original.

I cant open educational version so if you can give us step/iges it would be helpfull.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 19, 2014

Sagar asked before how to unfold a sheetmetal pipe using no bend k-factors and match the outside surface circumference. Unwrap was one unfolding a quilt was one option...

how to unfold the pipe

Sagar, you have to create the point on the surface to help the feature define where to unfurl from. I place it on the edge, in line with the datum plane. I also only unfurled half the pipe at a time. It may be possible to do the whole pipe if you merge the surfaces but you might have to make a seem.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 19, 2014

This is flatten quilt for 2 halfs and merging them at the end of the process.

Notice the datum point feature in the tree and at the intersection of the datum plane and the edge.

flatten_quilt_II.PNG

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