How To Roll Sheet Metal Into A Cylinder

We used frankbe s metehod on 1 1 4 thick plate rolled into 48 diameter tubes for road construction compaction equipment.

How to roll sheet metal into a cylinder. But your best option would be to start the part as cylinder make sure you leave a small slit then unfold make the cutout pattern and fold back to get the flat pattern. Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required. Sheet metal cone calculator view the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections. Unfold and fold are tools in sheet metal.

π d π 2010 6314 6 mm. Try sketch bend or flex feature. Thus if you take a sheet of metal 6314 6 mm long and roll it into a cylinder the cylinder will have outside diameter of 2010 mm. Inside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. If i understand correctly you want to roll a metal plate into a cylinder of outside diameter 2010 mm. To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple.

It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material. It but i have not found a good way to take the sheet stock and wave link it in to create a spun shape or even a simple cylinder i was hoping the sheet metal app could do this for me.