Help ! How to flat down a cur
Hi there ! I have finished 3d modeling a canoe in Autocad8 , she`s made of8 curved surfaces ,and now I`m trying to “flat” themdown to asingle plansurface ,to get the exactdimensionsso I candraw themon the plywood.It should be a simple task butI am new to Autocad8 and I could really use some helphere . Thank you ! "Magic" buttons can be found 3 aisles over in the "Tricks and Tips" department right next to the Fairy dust.Really?One simple command to unfold curved surfaces.Stop nipping the grain alcohol.Time for a reality check.
Know anyone running Inventor?
Are you a student? Thank you so much for your help ! I will look in to the program you linked me !It looks like exactly what I need !Idon`t have anyone around here running Inventor and I`m not a student . I`m on a small greekisland where is hard to find someone with knowledge about this kinds of software . Thank U for your time and support ! Best regards ! We have a few forum members who use in Inventor.Maybe than can offer some advice.
You're welcomed.Good luck with your canoe. airsoldier2001,
We are about to complete a glass spiral staircase for a job at work here and I think this answer may help you.Your arc lengths are the key - that will be your flattened horizontal dimension. OK, I installed the program ( in the end I had to find a version for autocad8 , I loaded the application , I follow the exact instructions from the User Guide, which goes like that : Itype"unfoldsurf" command , I am then prompted to select the surface for unfolding, press enter as asked and then it ask me to : "Please Select Curves/Points For Unfolding (pressto end the selection):" . I try everything, but nothing is unfolding . Could please somebody clue me in about`it ? What I am supose to select in order to unfold`it ? If I try to select a point , line or curve from the surface I want to unfold , it gets selected all of the surface and nothing is unfolding . What I am doing wrong here ? I was actually speaking from a 2D perspective, airsoldier2001.Looking down on a curved piece of glass and looking at the front of a flattened piece of glass using the arc length of the plan view for the width of the elevation.Your questions seem to be out of my league.So sorry. How to unfold surfaces in autocad 8 (for those who might encounter the same problems like me):normaly youshould be able to do that directly from autocad 8 , by downloading the add-on “Unfoldsurf For AutoCAD “
from 3dsolidtech( http://www.solid3dtech.com/Products.html),and using the “unfoldsurf “command . But, for some reason, I couldn`t make`it happen either in autocad 7,8 or 10 . I`m sure I was doing something wrong, since I am only one week old on autocad. In the end I did`itwith the Inventor10 , byconverting the DWG (autocad file) with the “acisout “ command in to a *.sat file (from autocad), opened ,unfolded in to inventor with the 3d solidtech add-on (smart unfolder for Inventor), then I saved the file as a *.sat(with the “save copy as *.sat ) ,opened the file in autocad 10 with the “acisin” command , to then save`it as a DWG so I can use`it in Autocad 8 ,since I could`nt see anything in the “*.sat” file . I did this with help fromthe people (guru)ofthis forum, to which I transmit many ,many thanks and my respect !!! Regards !
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