Sheet Metal Conversion
Sheet Metal Conversion
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I have a interesting question for the community. I have been tasked with a side project, and am at a stopping point. I am trying to create a globe of the earth to mount outside our plant, but am having difficulty. I have created the sphere, then sketch planes, and finally, sliced the sphere into 8 pieces. Now I am trying to flatten those pieces out to find a sheet metal blank size for them. I will be cutting out the stainless steel sheet on our laser, and forming the parts with a english wheel, but am having difficulty trying to force solid works to convert the slice into sheet metal. I shelled out the sphere to .059 (16 ga stainless). As a side note all the information on the outside of the globe will be laser etched.






RE: Sheet Metal Conversion
It will have to be made up of several parts.
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Just a thought...
pj
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Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
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AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
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RE: Sheet Metal Conversion
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RE: Sheet Metal Conversion
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Sheet Metal Conversion
RE: Sheet Metal Conversion
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
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http://aerohydro.com/products/industrial/sfw.htm
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I am SURE you can NOT flatten a sphere !!
It has been some 200 or perhaps even 300 years ago that some mathematician (Swedish ?? - though not sure) has proven this once and for all that you can NOT flatten a sphere
RE: Sheet Metal Conversion
SolidWorks cannot (at the moment) "handle" the plastic deformation calcs needed to create a flat from a sphere. The SurfaceWorks package from Aerohydro apparently can.
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That piece is not what trekfan is asking about, but it is almost identical to one we produced at a previous job. Flat patterns can be created for many shapes regardless of plastic deformation. Just think of spiral chutes, square-to-rounds, and transitions.
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