Solidworks Sheet Metal Cone Cut

This tutorial will teach you how to use lofted bend in soli.

Solidworks sheet metal cone cut.

In an existing sheet metal part click unfold or insert sheet metal unfold. This is something that all solidworks users should know. In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features. When applying the insert bends feature located on the sheet metal toolbar or from the insert dropdown menu under sheet metal solidworks tells us a non linear edge at the seam of this cone is invalid.

If you can insert an axis the model is an exact cone. Learn how to make a sheet metal cone that can be unrolled into a sheet metal flat pattern. If you cannot insert an axis then the model is not an exact cone and cannot be unfolded. In the graphics area.

However sheet metal parts created with the lofted bends feature avoid this limitation and unfold appropriately. The selected face appears in the fixed face box. The unfold propertymanager appears. The selected bend appears in the bends to unfold box.

Select a face as the fixed face. Select the bend you want to cut across.