Pipe in sheetmetal

[STEPHEN_WHYTE]

Hello,

In 2000i2 I could make a u shaped pipe (close to real thing) in sheetmetal mode and be able to unfold it by modeling a piece of sq bar to the shape required, then add 4 rad's leaving a small flat surface on each face. To complete it, shell it out to the required thickness. Now back using pro-e wf3, and I can't seem to get this to work. I can't seem to access the shell command. It will unbend with the rad's but I can't make it hollow.

Any help appreciated, not urgent but one of those thing's that .......

Br
Stephen

 

[Dell_Boy]

With newer versions of Pro/E you don't have to leave small flats on the faces as you can may the radii exactly half the face width.

to get the shell feature you can copy it from a topologically equivalent part.


Have a look at

http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31 657&TPN=1


DB