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Flat view for surface.
Odin
Member Posts: 3 ✭
Hello!
How can I get a flat view from a non-flat, non-cylindrical surface?
I am planning to make a pattern (.dwg) and then roll this tube out of the material.
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NeilCooke
Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,912 
Model it how it is manufactured in the picture :)
Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA2
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Model it how it is manufactured in the picture :)
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4568b85540f412a1f22da289
🙏 Bravo @NeilCooke . Very nicely done. I'll have to squirrel a few of those tricks away for future use.
Many thanks! Nick
This is what I need!
A few days ago, I did the same operations (removing a narrow strip in a solid) but I could not convert the solid to sheet material.
I try to repeat, but for some reason the two edges after the loft operation do not match the diagonals.
And I can't understand why there are so many points in a circle on a sketch with a circle and rounding?
Why in your project on "sketch 2" all triangle constrain? i don't see equal constrains
I'm not sure I understand the question - sheet metal parts cannot have twisted faces, so the sketches are "faceted" to make the loft have flat faces only.