Hi all
I need your lights, I'm trying to create a piece like this in sheet metal.
Regarding its production process, it is first folded, then rolled.
Could you help me tell me how I should create it in order to come up with a flat shot at the end?
Thank you in advance
Hello
On which software do you not specify it?
If it is on SOLIDWORKS you must use the "Swept bent sheet" function which has existed since the 2014 version.
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Hello
If it's in Solidworks, you have to go through the "Swept bent sheet" function
Draw the profile on one plane, then draw the path on another plane
Balance the function with these two references and then unfold
Edit: Sorry @Coyote, I hadn't seen your answer....
In theory with SW it's not possible unless the latest version accepts?
The best I think is to make 2 pieces, one flat and that you can unfold
and with the deformed tool make the curved part
it's up to you to set the length of the neutral fiber
attached file SW 2012
Hello
Here is my tutorial which is really designed for that...
Good @ac-cobra tutorial!
@ Bart me on sw 2012 it doesn't want ;-)
I have the brushed folded sheet metal tool
but he doesn't want to ;-(
Excuse me:
well apparently if it works but I can't unfold it
he tells me that this room contains functions that cannot be unfolded ;-(
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Thank you Alain. :-)
weird, at home it works...
Well I'm in 2016 too..
But in 2014, it also works
maybe I'm doing it wrong ;-(
it is true that the beginning of sheet metal on SW
It was a start
I do a lot + of solid or surface than sheet metal
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@ Bart
and you manage to unfold this said part made in sheet metal sweeping
you can show me screenshots please thank you
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I understand, it's the same for the other modules.
I do ONLY sheet metal, it's getting boring^^
Fortunately I have a few projects under my belt and Lynkoa pushes me to learn other things =)
Then the hardest thing in the Sheet Metal module is not to draw a part, but to make sure that it is good after cutting, stamping, bending, welding, etc...
yes..................... I don't understand everything???????????????
via your unfolded the metal should be restricted to the internal radius so thicken the sheet metal
it seems very weird to me.................................; -(........; -(
should do a test with http://www.exactflat.com/
for example and there is a maximum of them in the link
a log to see again and again pure madness ;-)
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Hi gt22,
See my tutorial for this type of parts. With this one you should get there... Well I think this function has been available since 2013 or 14...
I took your tutorial and see tomorrow if it works with my SW 2012 ;-)
Thank you all for your answers, I'll try all this tomorrow;)
PS: I'm on solidworks 2016
Good night
Special machines are made for that;) @gt22
Of course, there are limits to the radius of curvature as well as the shape of the profile.
Not bad the tutorial, nice finish with the cut at 45 ;)
@ Bart I understand that there can be special machines
but I'm like the pit on the unfolds of this piece ditto for the Ac Cobra tutorial
it seems to me that mechanically there is a pale, even in a special machine,
the wings of the U can in no way in my opinion be rectangular in unfold
Because of the height of these wings so the outer length of these wings should be shorter in my opinion
via the differences in the radius of these
I agree that we can stretch via rolling but if we stretch have decreased the thickness of this so-called low sheet
but I find it hard to understand how we can narrow it down
it seems to me in any case that it can only crumple and curl in the interior
on the small radius and the wings at least the outer parts should in any case be cut off
to make it look like the 3D part
but I'm willing to be wrong, I'd like to see the rendering of this type of part with this type of unfold
fab step-by-step
I will be surprised at the result
If you have examples to show me I'm all ears with my eyes wide open
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