Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
Cpmvert cylinder to sheet metal.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
Exercise 23 cylindrical sheet metal parts linear sketch patterns.
To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple.
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If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.
Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required inside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
Click convert to sheet metal 3.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
Bend radii and thicknesses are measured from the model and maintained making this one of the easiest ways to convert any design to a sheet metal part and get a flat pattern even if you don t have any flat faces at all.
Under sheet metal parameters.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required inside diameter thickness x 3.
Here we have a solid body that i would like to convert into a sheet metal box then get the flat pattern to make it.
Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc.
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