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Flattening a loft surface
john_frings
Member Posts: 3 ✭
So I experimented with modeling a plywood hull for a small boat:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3802d6ef9725ce6f8d67f83a/w/c3076b2caa69d75323d9ef22/e/0cef65930fd5c5fa8b5526cf
Basically what I want to achieve is to make plans for sawing parts from flat plywood sheets so that they can be curved into the shapes of the model in the link above.
As far as I have understood from other posts on this forum, there is no functionality in onshape to flatten parts that are curved in 3 dimensions.
Is there any plans to add "unfolding" for these types of surfaces to onshape in the future?
Does anyone have a process to do this using some other tool (I'm thinking exporting a part from onshape, flattening it and import the flattened part back to onshape)?
Perhaps there is some math trick to calculate an approximation of the flat shape from the curved part?
Thanks!
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3802d6ef9725ce6f8d67f83a/w/c3076b2caa69d75323d9ef22/e/0cef65930fd5c5fa8b5526cf
Basically what I want to achieve is to make plans for sawing parts from flat plywood sheets so that they can be curved into the shapes of the model in the link above.
As far as I have understood from other posts on this forum, there is no functionality in onshape to flatten parts that are curved in 3 dimensions.
Is there any plans to add "unfolding" for these types of surfaces to onshape in the future?
Does anyone have a process to do this using some other tool (I'm thinking exporting a part from onshape, flattening it and import the flattened part back to onshape)?
Perhaps there is some math trick to calculate an approximation of the flat shape from the curved part?
Thanks!
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