How To Roll Sheet Metal Into A Cylinder

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.

How to roll sheet metal into a cylinder.

Inside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required. The perimeter or circumference of a circle is π d where d id the diameter and hence the circumference of your cylinder is. We used frankbe s metehod on 1 1 4 thick plate rolled into 48 diameter tubes for road construction compaction equipment. Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc.

π d π 2010 6314 6 mm. Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple.

Unfold and fold are tools in sheet metal. If i understand correctly you want to roll a metal plate into a cylinder of outside diameter 2010 mm. 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. 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.

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