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Re: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

Midwest Metal — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:51:06 -0000

Thanks for sharing this, Ricky. This is very helpful.

Re: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

abts0203ac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:45:14 -0000

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Re: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

rickyjordan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:24:07 -0000

LOL! Yeah...there was some echo with it. It wasn't there in Camtasia until I processed the video to Flash format. It was late last night when I did it so I figured I would go ahead and post it and work on the audio problems for the next video.

Glad you like the video. I hope folks find them useful.

Ricky

Re: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

Neil — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:56:31 -0000

Very good. Actually this reminds me of the UV texture unwrap process in Blender.
I wonder if the concept could be extended to include a flattening of simple pressed parts by least squares.

P.S. It does sound a little like you have sheetmetal underpants but at least there's no heavy breathing with it this time ;) - or maybe you took that out? :D

Re: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

rickyjordan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:34:54 -0000

arash,

I have tried it on a few different parts and the results look really good. I have not used it in a production environment as of yet, but do believe it is a stable tool. This tool opens up a whole new thought process of creating sheet metal parts. If you check out the What's New document, it also has some applications with imported parts. I'll try to cover that aspect of the tool in a later post.

Thanks for reading!

Ricky

Re: SolidWorks Video Tip: 2009 Convert to Sheet Metal

arash — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:36:16 -0000

is this new feature, powerful and predictable enough to be used in realworld complex applications and as a replacement to the old method?
Thanks!