Inventor Sheet Metal Cone

Understanding the rules for inventor sheet metal opens up the entire toolbox of tools rather than limiting the user to those tools designated as sheet metal.

Inventor sheet metal cone.

Simply use care to create valid geometry. Uniform thickness planar faces connected with cylindrical or conic bends non intersecting faces in folded or flat. Then select highlight the inside surface of your cone and press the flat pattern button. Convert to sheet metal and set the thickness in sheet metal defaults to whatever my offset was.

I revolved the sketch around to generate the cone. Understanding the rules for inventor sheet metal opens up the entire toolbox of tools rather than limiting the user to those tools designated as sheet metal. Press the sheet metal defaults button uncheck use thickness from rule if its checked set thickness to 0478 and click okay. Uniform thickness planar faces connected with cylindrical or conic bends br non intersecting faces in folded or.

Sheet metal cone i have looked at this but have not been able to create a cone and then a flat pattern from it. Then flat pattern if needed. Spi sheetmetal inventor for autodesk inventor expands the sheet metal functionality of inventor by providing innovative features. In particular it helps to streamline the process chain and to directly transfer data to the production.

Fine the cone created ok but when i click on the flat pattern button it just reorientates the cone but doesnt generate a flat pattern. I find it easier to revolve a cone using an offset line for the thickness in a part file ipt revolve at less then full i use angle 359. By using the standard transition to create various combinations of cylinder and cone intersections.