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Re: Flatten a 3D object as a "cut list"
From what I understand you basically want to use a sheet metal feature of the software if one is available. (I'm not an Inventor user, so I'm not sure)
With Lexan it is a little different than sheet metal, because you won't know the material's K-Factor*, but the good thing is of you overshoot how much material you are going to use, then trimming or sanding some extra off is not a big deal. If you think of your project box as a cube, all you would need to do is "unroll" it to get the needed shapes. There are only a certain amount of logical ways you would need to make your pattern so that it makes your desired shape at the end. You could do something like this where the solid lines define the edges of your part, and the dashed lines is where you would "fold" or bend the lexan to make a box shape. If you wanted to, just send me the .sat file of your part you want to bend, and I could throw it in SolidWorks sheetmetal feature, and give a pattern from the defined end result you want. Or, if someone else knows of a sheetmetal tool in Inventor, that may work better. Just PM me if you want to send me the file. We've actually done bending of lexan before, (bad picture, but the cover on top with all the stickers is the lexan part) and it's a little tricky, so I'm wondering what tool you have available to you to do the actual bending? * Quote:
Last edited by Elgin Clock : 28-01-2008 at 10:24. |
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