How to flatten a curved surface in solidworks?
hello
I have modelled a hull of a boat on solidworks using loft feature and a couple of simple sketches for loft.
There are total of 5 surfaces. I need to flatten each of these surface so that I can get the perfect dimensions to cut the wood for making the boat in real. Please help me with this.
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Tomica Vukovic over 1 year agoSee my example - older version od SW but I hope it will works in higher versions.
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Cliff Behrend over 1 year agoDraw a new 3D drawing on each surface of the hull
Divide into triangles using long edges
Draw new 2D drawing
ReDraw triangles using dimensions from 3D sketch
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ALI over 1 year agodo you mean like sheet metal? or you just want the exact dimensions?
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ALI over 1 year ago
It would be better if you start with a sheet metal parts instead of trying to flatten these non-planar surfaces. I'm not sure if you can convert those non-gaussian curves to sheet metal parts with accurate dimensions. I tried to cut your part to four triangular pieces with surface bends then convert them to sheet metal but that too much work for inaccurate results.
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praneeth over 1 year ago
i can know the length using measure tool. but I cannot shape it only using length alone, because each face is not a triangle.
So, I need to convert it into a flat pattern so that I can model with wood in real using the flat pattern dimensions.
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Tomica Vukovic over 1 year ago
You must playiing with a sheetmetal tool "sketched bend". This tool allow you to make individual bendings where you create a bend position ,radius of tool for bending and requested angle of bending. But you must divide a surfaces into small long plates- see how a boat hulls made in the past on net. This base model you can use to determine radius of curvature - in "sketched bend" tool put that value in place where radius is. For angle of bending you must playing. And playing is continoue. There is not a fast solutions.
