Make Cone Shape Sheet Metal

The easiest way to make a cone is to start with a semicircle then overlap the straight edges until they form a cone shape.

Make cone shape sheet metal.

Enter hole slant height up slanting edge of the cone and hole diameter and hit draw. A properly shaped piece of sheet metal and an optional hanging tab make building your own cone easy and inexpensive. Remove the cone from the paper and cut the bottom of the construction paper off at the mark that represents the bottom. It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.

Sheet metal cone calculator. You can get three guards out of a 3x8 foot piece of metal see drawing below from zeleny s book then cut out circles. Once you know how to make a basic cone you can experiment with other materials such as plastic sheeting. To mark holes or lines around the cone check holes or lines and enter number of incremetns.

The sides should be about 16 inches long. Enter top width bottom width and height of the cone see diagram and hit calculate to draw a full scale printable pattern template to mark out the cone. Make a straight line on the cone. Things you will need lie your cone in the middle of a piece of construction paper with the top of the cone at the top of the paper.

Things you ll need medium soft 24 gauge copper sheet tin snips rivet gun copper rivets electric drill wooden round 1 inch ball wooden 1 inch round disk leather work gloves ceiling hook. Here is one way to make a cone from flat stock. If you want to get more specific however you should start with a circle instead then cut a wedge out. On your piece of sheet metal draw the trapezoid shaped design of your cone so that the top edge of the cone is 24 inches long and the bottom edge is 10 inches long.

You can find cone calculators online. In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features. I used aluminum sheet coil but you could use paper or any flat material. Your circle will be 18 from the center of the circle to the edge i e 36 in diameter when flat when formed into a cone the finished diameter will be less.

Cut a 3 foot square piece of 24 or 26 gauge galvanized sheet metal.