Originally Posted by Bob La Londe[_3_]

Affordable CAD software suggestion please. I would like to be able to
create a surface in CAD, bend it along a curve. Rotate it along an axis.
Trim it on two planes, and then flatten it back out to be able to get the
flat surface dimensions of the sheet in order to layout cutting in the real
world. Several affordable CAD programs (just about all 3D programs) can do
the first couple parts, but getting the exact flat sheet dimensions of the
resulting piece becomes problematic at best.