Make it a surface not a solid then select the face of the tank and use the thicken tool in the part model environment.
Pulling sheet metal on a tank.
Below are some examples of our sheet metal shaping and custom built aluminum sheet metal work for pulling tractors including hoods dashes fenders side shields fire walls skid bar wrap and dropped frame covers.
There are just to many more pro s then con s to not to do this.
Or to round chamfer or extrude edges.
The bureau of labor statistics has reported that more than 36 percent of injuries involving missed workdays were the result of shoulder and back injuries.
Use the pull tool to offset extrude revolve sweep draft and blend faces.
I have had many conversations with many pullers and many officials with many mixed opinions mostly from the.
Tool used to distort or deform geometry.
The lack of suppliers in this specialty type of work and customer demand has forced us to ramp up operations to accomodate the desire to have a one stop shop to get a new chassis and tin work under one roof.
Then slice the tank where you want the seam turn it into a sheetmetal part then select the thickness of the sheet select the outside.
The last several years have led to developing designs techniques patterns and functional sheet metal parts for pulling tractors.
Pulling tractors and sheet metal september 24 2009 01 04pm.
Lifting pushing and pulling sheet metal off shelves and onto cutting machines probably isn t anyone s career aspiration.