Fusion 360 Add Bend Sheet Metal

Look out for a upcoming post about our sheet metal challenge as we approach release.

Fusion 360 add bend sheet metal.

You can unfold shapes made in model patch space but it s up to you to make sure you created a developable surface as there are no tools in fusion specifically designed for the task. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern.

Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task. 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.

I look forward to all of your feedback and insights as we continue to add functionality to sheet metal. 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. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.

Unfortunately sheet metal will only unfold developable surfaces. The goal is to create an actual physical product. In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. While there is not currently a way to fully omit bend lines from a 2d drawing of a sheet metal flat pattern in fusion 360 there are a number of ways to work around this limitation.

The flange tool itself will only create developable surfaces. 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. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo.