Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
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Is there a way in NX9 to roll (bend) a thin flat rectangle into a ring? 360 degrees? Even 359.999 degrees? Anything? I have not used the Sheet Metal Package at all. Trying it, but nothing seems to work? Not very intuitive. Help if you can. Thanks.





RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
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RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
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RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
You can 'roll' in sheet metal, but you need to start with a small flat, then add the flange. In your case it would be a 359.9 degree bend.
Starting with the flat and then forming with the rolled and flat associative is hard to do. You may be able to get something with expressions driving the 'bend radius' from asn expression linked to the flat length.
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RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
Anyway, I hope this helps. There are a couple of other approaches that could also work but they would involve creating multiple solid bodies. The method described above comes closest to what you're looking for although the other methods, all of which would utilize a 'Contour Flange', you could get closer to a full 360° circle but it would never be exactly that.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
Just change the sketch "SHEET" with your new values (used mm template and therefore add "in" after the values.)
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RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
Michael Fernando (CSWE)
www.solidCADworks.com
Tool and Die Designer
Siemens NX V9.0 + PDW
SWX 2013 SP3.0 X64
PDMWorks 2013
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FastForm Advance
FormatWorks
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
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RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9
RE: Rolling a Flat Piece of Sheet Metal Into a 360 Degree Ring in NX9