{"id":409056,"date":"2025-02-10T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/3d-model-fails-to-convert-to-sheet-metal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:49:42","slug":"3d-model-fails-to-convert-to-sheet-metal","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/3d-model-fails-to-convert-to-sheet-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Model Fails to Convert to Sheet Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was hoping somebody with experience on sheet metal conversion (or flat plate development) would be able to guide me towards a fix on this issue.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have a 3D model created in Ansys SpaceClaim with some bends, I&#8217;ve assigned the material and tried converting it to a flat plate. It successfully recognized all of the bends except for 2, which you can see in the picture below.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/10-02-2025-1739195243-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SpaceClaim returns an error that it is unable to create junctions at these locations, saying &#8220;sheet metal conversion error: wall faces are different thicknesses&#8221;.&nbsp;This confuses me because I did a measurement on the thickness of plate at these locations, which is supposed to be 4.75 mm. As you can see from the measurement, that&#8217;s exactly what it shows.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any idea what could be going wrong?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance for your input.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ian&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-409056","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-3-d-model","topic-tag-bending","topic-tag-sheet-metal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_topic_id":["409056"],"_bbp_subscription":["512621","2327","271646"],"_bbp_author_ip":["72.38.74.30"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["422245"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["422245"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-02-18 18:27:01"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_engagement":["512621","2327","271646"],"_btv_view_count":["292"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_lock":["1739269010:32680"]},"test":"iwoodmachineandfab-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/409056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/409056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}