Good evening in turn, if I would like to make a sphere in several parts in sheet metal I started from a surface but I would have to roll it, so I have to pass it in sheet metal and there I stumble?
I'm putting a screenshot thank you for your answers
Marco
Hello
Shouldn't you thicken first? Because sheet metal work only works if there is a thickness, and a surface is virtual and has no consistency
What do you think?
Kind regards
Hello @marco42marc
As our friend says@Zozo
to be able to transform into sheet metal
you already need a volume
A surface is not a volume
a thickened surface becomes a volume
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Hello
I don't agree with my colleagues, it's possible to convert it into sheet metal from a surface,
On the other hand, it is impossible to develop a sphere or portion of a sphere,
The surface to be converted must also be a flat portion (some 0.01 or 0.1 is enough)
@ Pierre S
Thank you Pierre;-) of this precision because "convert volume" for something that is not a volume does not make sense.
Also agree with you on the sphere portion: detail that I didn't see because I just answered surface ==> to sheet metal.
Solidwoks doesn't know how to do stamping ;-)
Kind regards
Hello @Pierre S
I do not want to contradict
But at the sight of your jpeg
you put a thickness 0.05 mm
so you convert the surface to volume
it is well specified it seems to me via the tool (convert volume to sheet metal)
so you have to create a volume
but it is true that we can, as you demonstrate, select the surface
and it's from this surface that you give it a thickness even at least
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