Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Cone

Create a single line sketch that would represent the desired curve starting from in this example the nose of the cone and traveling to the base.

Fusion 360 sheet metal cone.

There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. Then shell the cone to make it hollow.

When applying the insert bends feature located on the sheet metal toolbar or from the insert dropdown menu under sheet metal solidworks tells us a non linear edge at the seam of this cone is invalid. Fusion 360 supports this action. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update. How to loft from two sketched circles one smaller than the other to create a cone shape.

Create only one half of the nose cone curve and maintain a standard axis reference say using the y axis as the rotation point. In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere.

In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons.