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Flattening Airfoil Rib/Sheet Metal conversion
I have an airfoil section/rib that i want to flatten and be turned into a sheet metal part. it's split into two sections, there is on 90 bend, an L shape. Happy to convert to a face/surface but convert to sheet metal model throws the error, having a hard time finding applicable examples.…
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Flatten eliptic arc based object
Dear colleague, is there any hint-workaround for creating a flattable "something" of the attached object such that it could be finally cut on a laser cutter? All my attempts (extruding solids, thickening surfaces, extruding/thickening metal sheets) failed so far. I tried to insert a link to my document but it says that the…
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What determines when a line can be used as "rip edge" for the flatten feature?
I'm having a hard time parsing when a line is able to be used as a rip edge. I've created a 3d loft and projected lines to the surface (and in some instances split the faces with said lines. Still I can't get some lines to highlight for rip edge. Loft / Sketch / Project / Split Faces / Flatten I can highlight some of the…
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On Flattening a cylindrical surface
Is there an Onshape equivalent of SolidWorks "Insert->Surface->Flatten" command? As far as I know, the best thing to do is make a projection of the surface and then scale it to the length of the cylinder. Are there any features that people have made that can do that? I'm trying to make a sticker template for the surfaces…