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How To Roll Sheet Metal with Perforated Pattern?
AuroraRon
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Anyone know how to do a pattern on sheet metal that is not a flange, its a roll or some other form?
I understand how to do a pattern on a solid and extrude it but, how about doing the same on sheet metal?
The extrusion needs to done on the flat surface not on a sold.
Here is an example
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I see your example, thank you. That will do it.Do these features scripts have any documentation / instructions ?0
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there are no explicit documentation for it, just a number of example cases in the source documentAuroraRon said:Do these features scripts have any documentation / instructions ?
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@AuroraRon you can model in the flat. You can create a sketch on the face of the flat view and remove the profile with the Extrude remove option. This example was created by sketching a circle and patterning it in the sketch on the flat view, then an extrude remove using that sketch.
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if you make hexagonal pattern on the flat sketch, then you just need to map it on the cylinder surface using Sketch Wrapper FS with "Split face" option and then delete those faces with "leave open" option and then convert the surface to sheet metal part.
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I see your example, thank you. That will do it.Do these features scripts have any documentation / instructions ?0
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there are no explicit documentation for it, just a number of example cases in the source documentAuroraRon said:Do these features scripts have any documentation / instructions ?
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@AuroraRon you can model in the flat. You can create a sketch on the face of the flat view and remove the profile with the Extrude remove option. This example was created by sketching a circle and patterning it in the sketch on the flat view, then an extrude remove using that sketch.
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Okay now that was just too easy!
Thank you. @KatieHuffman
I forgot sketching on a flat option was added not long go. Now recall and found that
Cody Armstrong did a blog on it July 17th 2018 here if anyone else wants to see it.
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