Fish Mouths
Wed, Jan 6, 2010
In this video Jake shows you how to create a paper pattern of a fish mouthed tube to use as a template for all of your tubular planning needs. A full scale drawing is then created to ensure that your printed version is perfect. JM
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January 13th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Neat trick. Thanks for the idea. Don’t take this the wrong way, but what happened to Tim? Why no posts for a year? I have only recently found this site, but it is a wealth of knowledge for new solid workers. Will there be new posts from you regularly now?
January 14th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
I have to agree – Very nice to see a new post after so long. I really enjoy video demonstrations because I always seem to pick up something from them. I wish my VAR did them as well. Thanks!
January 20th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Hello SWorker,
Enjoyed your vids and learned quiet a lot – Thank you.
I have a few questions:
1. I share your dislike of seeing planes – is there a way to create them as not visible? – I now about the option of hiding all planes – looking for a diffrent way
2. My dimmension anotations don’t show up as nice as yours – and I’m not all that savy with drawing standarts – could you please share your setting for displaying annotations – appriciate it.
thank you for your work – Itamar, Israel
March 10th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Thanks for the video!
I am working on a project (oh and I am teaching myself Solidworks) and I am trying to come up wit a flat pattern to wrap around a piece of 16 inch pipe. I have created the pipe and all the cuts into as well as. I have followed the instructions in the video and was able to create a flat pattern but when I measure the length of the flat pattern it comes out to 48.84″ and the circumference of a 16″ pipe is 50.24″. I assume the shorter flat pattern is allowing for the growth that would be experienced when the flat pattern is bent. But since I am applying this to a piece of pipe my flat pattern will not make it all the way around. Am I thinking about this the right way? am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
Neil
May 15th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
The was very helpful. You may have left out an important step though. It will only be truly 1:1 if you set the K factor to 1.0, after all this is not really “sheet metal” that is stretching.