Inventor Sheet Metal Cone

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Inventor sheet metal cone.

By using the standard transition to create various combinations of cylinder and cone intersections. Convert to sheet metal and set the thickness in sheet metal defaults to whatever my offset was. Then select highlight the inside surface of your cone and press the flat pattern button. Spi sheetmetal inventor for autodesk inventor expands the sheet metal functionality of inventor by providing innovative features.

Simply use care to create valid geometry. Press the sheet metal defaults button uncheck use thickness from rule if its checked set thickness to 0478 and click okay. Use all of the tools in your inventor toolbox to create the geometry you need. I revolved the sketch around to generate the cone.

Fine the cone created ok but when i click on the flat pattern button it just reorientates the cone but doesnt generate a flat pattern. Uniform thickness planar faces connected with cylindrical or conic bends br non intersecting faces in folded or. Sheet metal cone i have looked at this but have not been able to create a cone and then a flat pattern from it. Uniform thickness planar faces connected with cylindrical or conic bends non intersecting faces in folded or flat.

In particular it helps to streamline the process chain and to directly transfer data to the production. Then flat pattern if needed. I find it easier to revolve a cone using an offset line for the thickness in a part file ipt revolve at less then full i use angle 359.