Flattening a surface

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Hi all

 

I made a 4-sided curved vase.

My goal is to flatten one side in sheet metal.

I extracted a surface but I stall, no way to convert to sheet metal.

I wanted to know if anyone has a technique for that.

I put the images.

Thank you all


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My surface seen from the front


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My surface seen from the side


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Hello 

to convert to sheet metal, you would have to use the "Transition Fold" function; But it doesn't work for sketches with splines. So the technique is to redraw your spline with arcs and lines.

 

Gauthik


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An image, in case you don't have Solidworks 2017.


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Ok, thank you very much Gauthik

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For information, I just found this:

http://help.solidworks.com/2016/French/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_flatten_surface.htm

But this is only available with Solidworks Premium a priori. Too bad.

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