To make this part in laser cutting I would like to lay it flat
Thank you in advance for your help
tube_heater.sldprt
tube_heater.sldprt
Hello, your play was in 2020 version and there is little chance that you will have an answer.
A screenshot can already help.
Kind regards
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Hello
Normally with the 2019 SP5 version you can at least display the volume but without anything in the creation tree.
The PB is that your file seems totally empty.
Can you send it back with the pack and go
Kind regards
Hello
Your workpiece is only Ø 6.4 mm outside and Ø - in inter and 30 mm in length
So taking into account on the one hand that you have a lattice structure on half of the and a net type material removal on 13.6 mm, you will have a lot of trouble having a shape that conforms to your drawing after a flattening, laser cutting and then cylindrical reshaping (by the way, what about the assembly method of the reformed tube into a cylinder. It is especially at the level of the shaping of the lattice area that it becomes mission impossible unless you have something helicopatatoidal.
AMHA if the part justifies it, you have to do the laser cutting on the tube and not on a flat shell. @ac-cobra has skills it seems to me on laser cutting on tubes ;-)
Kind regards
PS: be careful you have a defect on the depth of your net which generates an anomaly towards the end of the net which makes any flattening impossible it seems to me.
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the programming is done flat a posprocsseur generates the program
but we machine a tube
Hello, cal'air a very nice room:)
To generate your program, don't you have a software that starts directly from 3D?
It's like for us with our wooden panels, if we use the 3-axis a 2D is enough, but if we have curve/slope machining then we need a 3D to switch to the 5-axis.
We use Alphacam but not sure that it handles this type of machining.
EDIT:I inquired with my supplier and he manages the laser/turning remains to be seen the compatibility with your machine.
Also to see if SolidCam can do it.
We too AlphaCam
The flat machining is created and then projected onto the solid
Our postpro is made like this
If you have Alphcam in this case you should open your Solidworks part directly (depending on your license) and retrieve the outlines directly from the 3D.
Alphcam has a laser module and a turning module so we should have offered you this solution (except for a budget reason on the part of your company)
I recommend that you contact your supplier who is Systell for France.
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Answer from Visiativ Rebuild my solid flat in sheet metal module
Thank you all for your participation
Moral: first consult the hotline
@zozo don't quite agree since visuative doesn't manage the CAM part via alphcam, and therefore offers a SW solution, while alphcam is quite suitable to output a gcode to the cnc starting from the 3D step or directly SWpart.
Why keep it simple when you can do it... :)
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Good evening @ ste
See attached image
made by surface flattening
The problem is to create a continuity of the elements since for an unfold or flat it is done on a single surface
So to do this, I added an additional material that allows me to maintain the x pieces that it would make up if we cut the part
and merges all these pieces
@+ ;-)
NOTE: for the mods the button is still gray too light it's painful (for image insertion)
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too strong gt22
If I have a little time I'll look into this solution
Thank you