How To Roll Sheet Metal Into A Cylinder

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How to roll sheet metal into a cylinder.

Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc. Inside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required. It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material. 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. To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple. If you have any other. If i understand correctly you want to roll a metal plate into a cylinder of outside diameter 2010 mm.

Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required. 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. The perimeter or circumference of a circle is π d where d id the diameter and hence the circumference of your cylinder is.

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.