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1. Help with animating a cone unfolding into a flat surface using MAYA

   

   Topic by sian · Apr 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   Any help would be much much appreciated with helping me work out how to animating a truncated cone unfolding into a flat surface. To use for sheet metal development. I can't find anything to point me in the right direction. I'm using maya or 3d max. Thanks.

2. Re: Help with animating a cone unfolding into a flat surface using MAYA

   

   Reply by sian · Apr 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   thats great :)

3. Re: Help with animating a cone unfolding into a flat surface using MAYA

   

   

   Reply by RN · Apr 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   Maybe it'll be easier to start from the flat surface / sheet and animate the strength of a bend modifier making it a cylinder. Then you can reverse the animation to go from that revolution shape back to the flat surface. The sheet is a rectangle, inclined as a slope to create a tapered cylinder (aka truncated cone).

4. Re: Help with animating a cone unfolding into a flat surface using MAYA

   

   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Apr 2020 · Home› Technical Talk

   Moving to Technical Talk, from General Discussion.