How To Make A Sheet Metal Cone Pattern

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How to make a sheet metal cone pattern.

This is just one way and i find that is the easiest and quickest way. There are many different ways to lay out this pattern. You can find cone calculators online. The curved steel cone calculator from chicago metal rolled products makes it easy to find the precise curved steel cone dimensions you need.

Length a mm length b mm length c mm arc angle degrees radius r1 mm radius r2 mm hi. In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features. Enter hole slant height up slanting edge of the cone and hole diameter and hit draw. Calculates the measurements for the pattern to construct a flat top cone.

Flat top cone calculator. Sheet metal cone calculator. By the vertical height divide this product by the difference first obtained large dia and small dia this will give you the length of the center line you need from the top of the cone to the intersecting point a. Multiply the large dia.

To mark holes or lines around the cone check holes or lines and enter number of incremetns. It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material. Here is one way to make a cone from flat stock. 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.

View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections. Enter top width bottom width and height of the cone see diagram and hit calculate to draw a full scale printable pattern template to mark out the cone. If you liked this perhaps you ll like my latest project.