Inventor Sheet Metal Cone

Convert to sheet metal and set the thickness in sheet metal defaults to whatever my offset was.

Inventor sheet metal cone.

In particular it helps to streamline the process chain and to directly transfer data to the production. Then select highlight the inside surface of your cone and press the flat pattern button. Simply use care to create valid geometry. Use all of the tools in your inventor toolbox to create the geometry you need.

Use all of the tools in your inventor toolbox to create the geometry you need. 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. I revolved the sketch around to generate the cone. Understanding the rules for inventor sheet metal opens up the entire toolbox of tools rather than limiting the user to those tools designated as sheet metal.

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. 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.

Then flat pattern if needed. Spi sheetmetal inventor for autodesk inventor expands the sheet metal functionality of inventor by providing innovative features. Uniform thickness planar faces connected with cylindrical or conic bends br non intersecting faces in folded or.