Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ Sheetmetal cylinder

[Robert Andersson]

-Drag in a stock
-Ad a bend
-Delete the stock
-Rightmouse the bend in Intellishape mode, select properties.
-Select tab Bend
-Set first and second bend stock to zero.
-Rightmouse the angle handle and put in like 359,9 degrees.
Now you have a sheetmetal cylinder to flat.
Robert Andersson

[Mike Allen]

Excellent tip! I find that you can add a seam on the ends before changing the bend angle. The two ends don't line up correctly for the seam, but it gets close enough. I tried entering 360 for the angle and when I checked the result, it was 359.994 - which must be the maximum angle.

-Mike

[jsavisalo]

Yes, Robert's tip works fine. But it's even easier if you first drag in the Stock and then ad a Bend w/ Stock. That way you can simply delete both stocks and you don't have to go to the Intellishape properties to set the stock lengths to zero.

Juha

[Robert Andersson]

Right, but it is even furter easy if you create a cylinder in a scene, and then drag it in to you own sheetmetalcatalog. Then it's just to drag it out when needed.
Beat that!
:)
Robert Andersson

[jsavisalo]

Well, that's hard to beat Robert!

Juha