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Convert to sheet metal module : Create model
Menu access : Sheet metal | Convert to sheet metal | Create model
Description :
Allows you to create the sheet metal part model to convert.
The convert to sheet metal module has to be used after the data recuperation from others CAD/CAM softwares (DWG, IGES, Parasolid,...) and allows you to create a modifiable, unfolding and machining sheet metal part.
This model will follow the part to convert until the creation of the sheet metal part. If you modify the part to convert, the conversion model will bring up to date in relation to the data which contains. The conversion model is used for memorise conversion data relating to the field of the sheet metal (thickness) and its sides (the opposites sides have different colors).
General philosophy :
Choose a calculation mode :
<minimum>
: based only on the topology of the shape to convert. This calculation
mode is very fast but has an inconvenient : it does not deal correctly
with shapes which have non equal faces sides (ex shape with 0 inside radius)
.
<maximum> : allows to solve at best the case where shapes have non equal faces sides. For each face of a side the associated face on the other side will be searched.
Select a face of the shape to convert in sheet metal, in order to run the conversion.
Result :
The faces sides have different colors.
The part appears in shading render with the 1st side in pink, the 2nd
side in green and sheet metal field in yellow.
Specific point(s) :
The Run complete
conversion process=Yes option allows to run the creation model,
automatic bend search, checking and sheet metal creation functions in
order to quickly obtain an sheet metal part that can be unfolded.
The selected face has not to be a
lateral face of the sheet metal part.
The part has to be a solid.
In order to improve the response
time, select as start face the face which contains the most of insides
cuts.
