Rolling (metalworking)

Rolling in metalworking is like flattening playdough with a rolling pin. Imagine you have a ball of playdough and you want it to be flat, you would take a rolling pin and roll it over and over to make it into a flat shape. When metalworkers roll metal, they use big machines that have rollers to take a piece of metal and flatten it out. The rollers are like giant rolling pins that squish the metal down and make it thinner and longer. This makes it easier for the metalworkers to create different shapes and sizes of the metal that they need for things like making cars or buildings. It's like when you play with playdough and you want to make different shapes, you have to flatten it out first before you can cut it into shapes. That's what rolling in metalworking does, it flattens the metal so it can be used to make different things.