Can Inventor produce flat sheet drawing for helical surface?

[Vagulus]

I am trying to create a model in Inventor 2015 which involves a helical screw form.
advanced_spiral_technology_truhelix_flight_forming_system_helical_screw_flights.jpg
These sections of helical screw are knurled from slotted circular plate with a hole in the middle. I can model the formed plate, I want to draw the flat plate before knurling.

Thanks

[scj.schulz]

In AutoCAD you can do it in the following way:
see
http://ant-ares.de
videos, Unfolding a helix conveyor
Good luck
Jochen

[Vagulus]

In AutoCAD you can do it in the following way:

Thanks Jochen. I was sure there would be a way for a mechanical draughter to do this in CAD (or pencil and paper) but Inventor is playing hard-to-get.

[Pierre Marcotte]

If you know a little about iLogic, this will be a snap : http://www.cad-notes.com/automate-fl...-using-ilogic/
If you've never touched iLogic, at least it gives you the geometric formulae for unfolding these shapes.
Inventor does not "flatten" these shapes internally as they are not made from bend lines (I know some other software packages CAN do this), but from press forming.

[Vagulus]

Thanks Pierre

I know nothing about iLogic, yet, so that does not really help at this point in time.
However, following your link I found this link which seems to hold out an answer.

Cheers