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Sheet metal - unfold all solids, metrics report

POST 

/api/v1/cad/pro/unfold/solid-report

Proprietary sheet-metal analysis: computes per-solid unfold metrics for every solid in an uploaded STEP file. Requires the 'cad' API key scope. Returns 202 with a task ID; the JSON report array is delivered in the task metadata.

Request

Responses

Task accepted

Reference

POST /api/v1/cad/pro/unfold/solid-report

Proprietary sheet-metal analysis: computes per-solid unfold metrics for every solid in an uploaded STEP file. Requires the 'cad' API key scope. Returns 202 with a task ID; the JSON report array is delivered in the task metadata.

Request body

Content type: application/json (required)

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
stepFileIdstringyesID 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.
kFactornumbernoSheet-metal K-factor (neutral-axis position), typically ~0.5.Default: 0.5.
thicknessOverridenumbernoSheet thickness override in model units; 0 auto-detects thickness from face pairs.Default: 0.

Responses

StatusDescription
202Task accepted
400Validation error
403Insufficient scope
500Server error

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api.bitbybit.dev/api/v1/cad/pro/unfold/solid-report" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ ... }'

Authentication: send your key in the x-api-key header. The full machine-readable specification is at openapi.json.