Unfolding of Cylinder Shapes
Unfolding of Cylinder Shapes
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Could anyone provide me with a resource that unfolds or provides a formula for cylinders that are cut at an angle or more specifically, a cone shaped part that is sitting at an angle. Thank you.





RE: Unfolding of Cylinder Shapes
Your problem seems not very complex, but you should specify it better (cylinder cut at an angle means a flute shaped end? what about the other end? a cone is completely different from a cylinder, what means 'more specifically'? what means sitting at an angle?): anyway I'm afraid it will be difficult to communicate about complex 3D geometry over this text based forum.
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RE: Unfolding of Cylinder Shapes
RE: Unfolding of Cylinder Shapes
All of the high end CAD systems will either do this or have an add-on to do this and some of the mid-low end packages do the same. I am talking about Pro-E, Unigraphics or Autodesk Inventor, SolidEdge, Solidworks, Modeler.... respectively..... HOWEVER... this is just what they claim and your problem sounds quite complex.
Contact a CAD supplier such as those mentioned above and tell them that you are interested in that system's capabilities, giving them your problem to solve..
If they can do it, then that is the system that's right for you. If it's jus a one-off job, then you will have the data you require.
That's how I would approach it.
Rich