How To Roll Sheet Metal Into A Cylinder

Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required.

How to roll sheet metal into a cylinder.

π d π 2010 6314 6 mm. We used frankbe s metehod on 1 1 4 thick plate rolled into 48 diameter tubes for road construction compaction equipment. If you have any other. 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.

Unfold and fold are tools in sheet metal. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc. 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.

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. To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple. The perimeter or circumference of a circle is π d where d id the diameter and hence the circumference of your cylinder is. Try sketch bend or flex feature.

It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder.