Convert Shell To Sheet Metal

In faces to remove select the faces as shown.

Convert shell to sheet metal.

Finally go to feature flat pattern. The original solid part is now a sheet metal part with sheet metal parameters complete with flat pattern. Convert the part to sheet metal by clicking insert bends or insert sheet metal bends. If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.

If an edge already has a fillet applied the radius of the fillet is used as the bend radius for the new sheet metal part. Click convert to sheet metal 3. In the convert to sheet metal propertymanager you specify the fixed face and thickness of the sheet metal part the default bend radius and the edges or fillet faces on which to create bends. Shell the block to 1mm so the part is of uniform thickness.

Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness. Let s start with the rules of sheet metal. You now have standard sheet metal features and associated sketches even if some are missing their names bug. I hope this help giov.

Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet. 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. And here is the converted shell metal. Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern.

The convert process is complete. In wf5 with your solid model applications sheetmetal shell do not select any faces and then done refs you will be prompted for the sheet thickness type in value and enter in creo2 operations convert to sheetmetal enter your wall thickness and tick middle button. This command acted as a shell command and removed the front face that was not included in any of the edge selections. Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal.

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