Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc.
Cpmvert cylinder to sheet metal.
Rule 1 you must have a consistent thickness.
Which means regardless where the model geometry originates you can convert it to sheet metal add sheet metal features and generate the flat pattern.
Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required inside diameter thickness x 3.
Click convert to sheet metal 3.
To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple.
I want to effectively roll the sheet up.
I have a rectangular piece of steel 25 692 l 1 600 h 048 t that i want to bend fully to create a cylinder.
The extremely compact normally aspirated h1 v8 used two of the suzuki heads displaced 3 0l and went for 45 000.
Here we have a solid body that i would like to convert into a sheet metal box then get the flat pattern to make it.
I figure this should be an easy thing to do in solidworks but i have little experience with the sheet metal portion and cannot figure it out.
If you can insert an axis the model is an exact cylinder.
As a test try to insert an axis on the cylindrical face.
Pick the a face that will be fixed plane of the flattened sheet.
Converting solid bodies to sheet metal.
Originally both a four cylinder the h2 and a v8 the h1 were available.
Autodesk inventor allows for converting models to sheet metal.
I understand that there are other simple ways of creating cylinders but the reason i started like this was because it s easier for me to put holes into a flat surface rather than a curved one.
Let s start with the rules of sheet metal.
However sheet metal parts created with the lofted bends feature avoid.
If you don t have the sheet metal tab open right click in the area where the 1 arrow points then click sheet metal.