I’m having trouble trying to flatten a ‘pipe clamp half’ when it is a conical design. The important factor is to have the mating faces of the flanges in the correct location, 180 deg apart, or coincident with the front plane in my case. The attached part is modeled correctly but doesn’t flatten. I actually prefer doing a revolved thin part, insert bends, and add the flanges. But if you revolve 180 deg, the flanges add too much material due to ‘bend outside’ flange location. Changing revolve to 179 deg or so may actually work fine for this part, but I’ve had lots of cone parts that have too steep of a slope that the flange still interferes, or is not projecting parallel to front plane. Sorry for the boring Monday read… but does anyone have a better solution for this? Currently I manually (AutoCAD) subtract extra material in my flat pattern when laying out to lasercut.
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