All 3 solutions aren't satisfactional, I am using unroll.FCMacro to get a surface sheet layout to cut and bend sheet metal and even the smallest distortion makes the macro bailing out, as workaround in the past I position a cone in a way it fits my sweep/loft and then cut both ends to match the original loft and then unroll that surface but that's a little inconvenient...
When creating a shape using either loft or sweep with a similar shape at both ends the resulting solid should always have straight lines without any deformation.
japie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:02 am
to get a surface sheet layout to cut and bend sheet metal
Now that I know the end goal, try this, it was done with the Mesh Design Workbench > Unwrap Face, I had to use an old Windows Build in order to achieve it unfortunately, probably can be done in 0.18.4 but not sure.
chrisb wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:29 am
Playd a bit more. The surface looks really good if I decrease the Angular Deflection to 1.5°.
Indeed both settings are giving a very very good result for creating my sheetmetal shapes (set them both to 1.0 so minimal material deformation) thanks Chris!
Syres wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:33 am
Now that I know the end goal, try this, it was done with the Mesh Design Workbench > Unwrap Face, I had to use an old Windows Build in order to achieve it unfortunately, probably can be done in 0.18.4 but not sure.
Awesome!!! I never looked at the mesh workbench before and this does what the macro should do but better: I made a couple of simple shapes and compared my hand made sheets of those to the Mesh unwrapped ones with very good result, you really made my day!
Working very well in 0.20 btw.
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