Hello
I make a bent tear sheet metal staircase. I have different sheets and I wish I had several unfolded states for the different sheets but I only manage to get it on one. I did create configurations but it only gives me the folding strokes, not the fold indications.
Have a good day everyone, looking forward to reading you
Pierrick
Hello@pthuillier
I think the main problem comes from the fact that you don't make your pieces in one piece.
As I see your SLDPRT you are actually making an assembly composed of several parts for example your legs.
So either you make an assembly from bent sheet metal and with cutting that allow you to do laser cutting and bending, or you add small pieces of part everywhere welded with a mimine (gulp)
In any case you must have an ASM made of PART made of sheet metal
Currently you have several distinct objects, not connected to each other: so you can always make a flat of the first part of your staircase it will have no effect on the legs (Flat FLAT 50 X 5(1)) and other material removals in your legs which are otherwise created as a separate piece. (base plate pie 3 and base plate folded 4) The same goes for material removal that is not done in the base sheet but as a posteriori machining.
The flattening can only be done on a single body and in sheet metal and not in ASM
At the very least, you need to do a first flight (folded base 1) and with the legs that fit well in a room.
Same for your second flight
It may be that I didn't understand anything and that I reason like the majority of pov' people who do sheet metal!
It all depends on what you want to do in the workshop: weld everything back together afterwards. In your conception -but from what I see on the legs-you should specify.
Kind regards
@tous
You will see in attachment the source of the problems in again I am not talking about the symmetries of the legs and then the linear repetitions of all these beautiful people who are so many "Part"
Indeed the legs I made will be welded, the folding machine we have does not allow me to make two different bends on the same sheet metal for the moment.
In fact, by correctly creating the configurations each time you unfold, it works relatively well. I have the folds with the directions and degrees for each sheet. A bit tedious because you have to go through the palette of seen and updated each time but it works pretty well.
Yes, I could have done piece by piece in an assembly with a linear repetition of course.
Thank you for your help in any case
Hello Pierrick,
If I understand correctly, do you want to have the different unfolded in your drawing for the laser bitrates?
If so, it's simple because your part is well designed in multibody with a list of welded parts.
On the other hand, the configurations are useless.
Look at the PC, I did a quick drawing using only the default config and doing the 3 unfolded bodies.
In "model view" you click on "body selection" a window of your 3D appears and you select a sheet, then you can click on "unfolded state"
To do as many times as you have bent sheet metal.
Is that what you're trying to do?
Hello icome,
That's exactly it, thank you very much. I just tested and indeed, no need to create a configuration.
Thank you very much!
Another question, how do you get your painting with the bodies?
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