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Sheet Metal

Sheet metal - unfold all solids, geometry + report

Proprietary sheet-metal unfold, full workflow: flattens every solid in an uploaded STEP file AND returns per-solid metrics in one call. Requires the 'cad' API key scope. Returns 202 with a task ID; flats are combined into one compound output per format and the per-solid report array is delivered in the task metadata.

post/api/v1/cad/pro/unfold/solid

Request body

stepFileIdstring required

ID of the previously uploaded STEP file (returned by the file upload endpoint). Both plain STEP (.step/.stp) and gzip-compressed STEP (.stpz) uploads are accepted - compression is detected automatically.

kFactornumber

Sheet-metal K-factor (neutral-axis position), typically ~0.5.

thicknessOverridenumber

Sheet thickness override in model units; 0 auto-detects thickness from face pairs.

Example request

{
  "outputs": {
    "meshPrecision": 0.1,
    "gltfMeshPrecision": 0.1
  }
}

Response

Task accepted

oktrue required

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "statusUrl": "/api/v1/tasks/{taskId}"
  }
}

Changes

Changed in 2 of the 15 revisions of this API.11