Roll Sheet Metal Into Cylinder

Metal rolling methods cold rolling is primarily used to create tubes out of sheets strips plates and rods.

Roll sheet metal into cylinder.

Plate rolling and sheet metal rolling. This tutorial shows how to convert cylindrical hollow solid part to sheet metal cylinder. Learn autodesk inventor sheet metal tutorial how to create cylinder object by using contour roll command check it out. When sheet metal is inserted between two such rolls the urethane wraps the sheet metal tightly against the steel roll.

Outside diameter thickness x 3 1416 length of plate required inside diameter thickness x 3. The perimeter or circumference of a circle is π d where d id the diameter and hence the circumference of your cylinder is. 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. Steel plate rolling to custom cylinder with holes punched sleeve shell.

Our cold rolled products are typically under 0 250 in thickness depending on the material type and length of the cylinder. Essentially you should calculate the centerline arc. 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.

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