How To Make A Sheet Metal Cone Pattern

I used aluminum sheet coil but you could use paper or any flat material.

How to make a sheet metal cone pattern.

Aligned behaviour for business goals. Enter top width bottom width and height of the cone see diagram and hit calculate to draw a full scale printable pattern template to mark out the cone. View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections. Enter hole slant height up slanting edge of the cone and hole diameter and hit draw.

To mark holes or lines around the cone check holes or lines and enter number of incremetns. By the vertical height divide this product by the difference first obtained large dia and small dia this will give you the length of the center line you need from the top of the cone to the intersecting point a. You can find cone calculators online. Flat top cone calculator.

In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features. The formula for the cone is first you must find the difference between the large and the small dia. When applying the insert bends feature located on the sheet metal toolbar or from the insert dropdown menu under sheet metal solidworks tells us a non linear edge at the seam of this cone is invalid. If you liked this perhaps you ll like my latest project.

Sheet metal cone calculator. Multiply the large dia. Calculates the measurements for the pattern to construct a flat top cone. The curved steel cone calculator from chicago metal rolled products makes it easy to find the precise curved steel cone dimensions you need.

Length a mm length b mm length c mm arc angle degrees radius r1 mm radius r2 mm hi. There are many different ways to lay out this pattern. It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.