making foam board plans from 3d models

[badpilot27]

I've been making my scratch build planes with "that looks about right" design and also not using any plans or actually design soft ware. I want to start making more complex planes and to do that I will need to design a plane and print plans for it. I'm pretty familiar with OnShape and I'm wondering if anybody can help me make foam board plans from 3d models from OnShape.

 

[Steel_Town_Hero]

I haven't used OnShape for some time now. Does it have a sheet metal feature. If so, this would be a good place to start. I'm a mechanical designer. I use Inventor and SolidWorks professionally, but I also volunteer at a local makerspace and teach Fusion 360 to high school students. If there is enough demand I could host a Fusion 360 course for y'all. And if you give a week or two I could refamiliarize myself with OnShape and do the same for that. Let me know if that's something everyone would be interested in. I'd like to give back to the FT community in return for all of the free and cheap plans I've been able to get and all of the knowledge I've gained lurking these forums.

 

[FoamyDM]

I had a hard time with that, and ultimately just got it done with autocad

 

[FoamyDM]

I haven't used OnShape for some time now. Does it have a sheet metal feature. If so, this would be a good place to start. I'm a mechanical designer. I use Inventor and SolidWorks professionally, but I also volunteer at a local makerspace and teach Fusion 360 to high school students. If there is enough demand I could host a Fusion 360 course for y'all. And if you give a week or two I could refamiliarize myself with OnShape and do the same for that. Let me know if that's something everyone would be interested in. I'd like to give back to the FT community in return for all of the free and cheap plans I've been able to get and all of the knowledge I've gained lurking these forums.

I will put my hand up for this

 

[Firestar119]

I usually use the rhino3d unroll tool for more complex shapes

 

[Steel_Town_Hero]

I will put my hand up for this

I sent you a direct message.

 

[FoamyDM]

I usually use the rhino3d unroll tool for more complex shapes

Which program, SketchUp?

 

[Firestar119]

Which program, SketchUp?

A program called rhino3d. The free trial is all that is needed

 

[ezbruh]

Onshape does have a sheet metal tool and you can change the workflow to mirror F360 or SolidWorks and a couple others so no familiarization needed. Onshape is great.

 

[Mr Man]

Onshape does have a sheet metal tool and you can change the workflow to mirror F360 or SolidWorks and a couple others so no familiarization needed. Onshape is great.

You don't even need to use the sheet metal tool, there is also a tool that'll try to flatten any single surface.

 

[ezbruh]

You don't even need to use the sheet metal tool, there is also a tool that'll try to flatten any single surface.

which one?

 

[Mr Man]

It's on the bottom right corner, you click on the protractor, and then click "flatten surfaces" It'll also let you export in SVG, DXF, STL, and something called PARASOLID.

 

[ezbruh]

it works great but the stl export doesnt. parasolid is just another 3d model format. dxf and svg work though and i haven't tried parasolid