Roll Sheet Metal Into Cylinder

To develop the blank flat length for a cylinder rolled from sheet or plate is quite simple.

Roll sheet metal into cylinder. Learn autodesk inventor sheet metal tutorial how to create cylinder object by using contour roll command check it out. If i understand correctly you want to roll a metal plate into a cylinder of outside diameter 2010 mm. Don t forget guys if you like our. Steel plate rolling to custom cylinder with holes punched sleeve shell.

When sheet metal is inserted between two such rolls the urethane wraps the sheet metal tightly against the steel roll. Solidworks convert to sheet metal cylinder. This is a custom 18 diameter pipe sleeve that was rolled using 3 8 thick plate and perforated by punching holes before rolling and welding. Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required inside diameter thickness x 3.

Plate rolling and sheet metal rolling. π d π 2010 6314 6 mm. A segment of this top roll is pushed into the urethane bottom roll and this deflecting volume of urethane functions the same as hydraulic fluid in a hydroforming process exerting very high pressures against the steel roll. Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc.

This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. The perimeter or circumference of a circle is π d where d id the diameter and hence the circumference of your cylinder is.