Fusion 360 Add Bend Sheet Metal

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

Fusion 360 add bend sheet metal.

Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. Unfortunately sheet metal will only unfold developable surfaces. This is an exciting time for fusion 360. Omit bend extent lines omitting bend extent lines will not fully remove bend lines but will give only one line per bend rather than three.

But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating an expensive 3rd party add in. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs. To make this design we will cover creating a base flange adding bends folding and unfolding the design virtually adding holes and other features and creating bending patterns that. Look out for a upcoming post about our sheet metal challenge as we approach release. The flange tool itself will only create developable surfaces.

Automated nesting of sheet metal components. Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo. I look forward to all of your feedback and insights as we continue to add functionality to sheet metal.

In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.