The curved steel cone calculator from chicago metal rolled products makes it easy to find the precise curved steel cone dimensions you need.
Cone inventor sheet metal.
Sheet metal cone calculator.
Uniform thickness planar faces connected with cylindrical or conic bends br non intersecting faces in folded or.
Sheet metal lofted flange dialog box creates a shape between two sketched profiles.
Select a face as the fixed face for the sheet metal part.
Select keep body if you want to keep the solid body to use in another convert to sheet metal feature.
When cleared the body is consumed by the convert to sheet metal feature.
Sheet metal bend zone edit specifies the facet control type and parameter for a bend zone within a lofted flange feature.
The layout may either be done on the material.
Simply use care to create valid geometry.
Under sheet metal parameters.
Set the sheet thickness and default bend radius.
View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections.
Sheet metal bend zone edit reference edits the bend radius and unfold rule for a bend within a specified bend zone of a lofted flange.
In the example shown in the 2 videos the included angle is around 76 degrees and the flat part swept angle is around 222 degrees.
It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.
Sheet metal design software considers the fabrication methods needed for manufacturing.
The flat pattern can be used to document and manufacture associatively as the design changes.
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.
As you create flanges and add bends the sheet metal design software will accurately represent the flat pattern required.