Thanks for the vid. I'm actually the reason you made this vid. I asked a friend on the plasticity discord how to unfold my model for laser cutting. He asked you how to unfold it and shared my orange PC case screenshot lol. I will be doing a PC case build video eventually. The reason I wanted the pieces unfolded was to send to a company to off load the work. I actual found out they accept .step files so I didn't need to unfold the pieces. However, my files still weren't being read right by their software. Come to find out its just as you said in this video the solution was simple. I adjusted my file in plasticity to have slight bevels on all edges that were sharp before so that the program could read them as bends. I also converted all faces into sheets then thickened them so that they were all the same uniform thickness. Thanks again for making a video on the issue nevertheless. Cheers!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

Cool. yeah it was a good question so i tried to make a model that was a similar shape :) Glad to hear you got a solution with a step file out of plasticity!!

always making the most helpful videos! this is very useful, thank you!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

Happy to help!

Excellent video! Thanks Matt

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I look forward to trying the unfold/refold command next time I get stuck, Thank You!

Very clear. Thank you 🙏

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

you're welcome

Nice tip! Thanks!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

You bet!

This will help a lot!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

awesome

Thank you so much sir 😍

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

welcome

How do we do that in Plasticity?

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign

Ай бұрын

You can't. Fusion and other CAD programs have sheet metal tools meant to design bent/formed parts in an end use state then flatten them. Plasticity doesn't have that and I don't think it really ever will. Programs like Fusion, Inventor, Solidworks etc that are geared more towards manufacture of parts would have those tools.

@aadityakoshti8940

Ай бұрын

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign oh okay. 👍

@S.G.W.C.

Ай бұрын

@@aadityakoshti8940 It depends actually. Like I had mentioned in an above comment. If you are uploading your files to a 3rd party company for them to cut it and bend it for you. You can select all faces click Shift D to duplicate faces then thicken (not extrude) the sheet to the desired thickness and make sure all your bends dont have any sharp edges and that you beveled them. This allows the programs to read it as a .step file and even shows where the bends are needed.