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Flattening a Dome/Bowl Shape

Flattening a Dome/Bowl Shape

Flattening a Dome/Bowl Shape

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Can a Dome/Bowl shape be flattened (via sheet metal functionality) using a standard SW Pro seat? This has been asked in the past (and the answer was no other than with third party software), but I wanted to make sure this was still the case with SW 2010. Needing a development from such geometry is an infrequent request that is usually solved/approximated manually. However, curiosity got the best of me and I have spent quite a bit of time searching for a solution or workaround using the SW provided sheet metal functionality. To this point, I have failed to find a method to do so.

RE: Flattening a Dome/Bowl Shape

The answer is still "No" ... and likely to be so for quite some time.

RE: Flattening a Dome/Bowl Shape

retseirp,

Since you could not create a dome from flat stock without stretching it, what kind of functionality are you looking for?  You could approximate a dome by creating a star and welding the limbs together and as the number of limbs on the star increase the approximation to a dome will get closer and closer, but that's just an approximation.  If you describe your goal, we may be able to help you find different ways of achieving that goal.

-Kirby

Kirby Wilkerson

Remember, first define the problem, then solve it.

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