This task shows how to create the Aerospace SheetMetal Design Part views in the Generative Drafting workbench. Tile the windows horizontally to see both your drawing sheet and your Sheet Metal part at the same time.
Creating An Unfolded View
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. L ᴫ2 R YTθ90 Where. Offset the extracted surface to obtain the neutral surface. Select the Drawing type and click OK.
In the Drafting window click Unfolded View in the Views toolbar Projections sub-toolbar. Open the GenDrafting_sheet_metalCATPart document. For complex sheet metal parts Associative and dedicated sheet metal feature-based modeling Concurrent engineering between the unfolded or folded 3D shape representation.
Imagine a box on a surface with a fillet in the corners. It is able to manufacture. The New Drawing dialog box opens.
Insert a drawing in the 3DPart. Sheet metal depends on certain parameters 1Thickness 2Bend Radius 3Bend angle. Maybe some other software like Autoform could help you Im not sure.
Choose the plane where you want to have the piece unfolded. 6Creating sheet metal components. Sélectionnez le drawing puis cliquez loption Unfolded view dans le menu View.
The Sheet Metal Parameters dialog box is displayed. From the Drafting workbench click the Unfolded View icon from the Views toolbar. We at Metal Heaven have written such a sheet metal unfolder using Eyeshot.
Unfolding a surface can often be impossible because of overlaps in the material as well as cut-ins. I dont know why but it feels good. I already understand that the sheetmetal unfold function is only used for ruled surfaces so I want to clarify upfront that Im aware and not looking to use that functionality.
The sheet metal is manufacturable if flat pattern is possibe2. As I normally use another CAD program. Enter 1mm in the Thickness field.
The unfolded view of the part is opened within the Drafting workbench because the dxf type is recognized as being a drafting type of document. Entering the Workbench The SheetMetal Design or Generative SheetMetal Design functions are available when you are in the Part environment. Go to drafting application.
How to Show Sheet Metal Bend Lines in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing A customer had recently called in looking for a way to show his Bend Lines on the drawing of his sheet metal parts. Several functions are integrated from the Part Design workbench. A surface is a zero-thickness shape.
These are not sheet metal parts or designed in the sheet metal module. In general Catia is doing the unfold for the drawing unfolded dxf. Tile the two windows horizontally.
Folded and unfolded parts available at any time Online collaborative service CATIA Generative Sheet Metal. Flat pattern develoed sheet1. The Sheet Metal part is displayed.
Select a surface on the part. The Unfolded View command is active in the Generative Drafting workbench with a Version 5 SheetMetal Design Generative Sheetmetal Design or Aerospace SheetMetal Design license. Click or select File - New.
Switch back to Part Design workbench and use the ThickSurface tool. However I have increasing customer requirements for developments and flat patterns and Im now getting Catia specific requests. The titles of CATIA.
Disposez les fenêtres à lhorizontale. Unfold of any type of bent parts after step import. What is a surface in Catia.
Select the Bend Extremities tab. Extracting Drawings from the Sheet Metal Part All together these tasks should take about 15 minutes to complete. Nice to read that you did it yourself succesful.
About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. While some people may say the answer is simple there are several ways to get the Bend Lines to show or not show in your drawing. Switch back to the sheet metal part and click on it the view will be generated on the drawing and the bending lines should also appears in the view End of tutorial.
Separate from the bending detection and the unfolding. Extract the inside or outside face from the the solid. When you try to unfold it you have overlaps you can solve only when treating the material as cloth.
Tile the windows horizontally to see both your drawing sheet and your sheet metal part at the same time. If you prefer to specify which plane should be used select the plane in the Sheet Metal. Create normal views front side top Expand the action bar click on small arrow Select the unfold view.
If you want a solid of the flat pattern. By activating generative view styles and using a customized viewstyle xml file you can generate those annotations automcatically - enjoyLink to the xmlfile. Defining the Sheet Metal Parameters This task shows you how to configure the sheet metal parameters.
JacobL Mechanical 22 Feb 06 0815. You can also flatten any reference curves such as holes 5. Flatten unfold a Developed Surface.
The parts are basically stock aluminum squarerectangular tubes bent and. In CATIA k-factor value is. Default value will be 05.
Click in the drawing in the view menu Unfolded view. This will automatically use the sheet metal reference wall plane. Which command creates funnel that can Beunfolded into flat pattern in Catia.
It involves some rich feature recognition too when you want to handle louvers etc. Once i was a REAL design engineer i used to unfolded some sheet metal from CATIA to Solidworks and vice versa. Enter 5mm in the Default Bend Radius field.
As I know the only environment helps you unfold a part in CATIA is generative sheet metal design. So I am trying to unfold some parts in CATIA that are made by beam bending. Use the UNFOLD tool to flatten the neutral surface.
From the File Selection dialog box choose the dxf file type then select the saved part PartSavedAsDXFdxf. Click the Sheet Metal Parameters icon. The Generative Drafting workbench is launched.
