Fusion 360 Add Bend Sheet Metal

Automated nesting of sheet metal components.

Fusion 360 add bend sheet metal.

I look forward to all of your feedback and insights as we continue to add functionality to sheet metal. Unfortunately sheet metal will only unfold developable surfaces. Look out for a upcoming post about our sheet metal challenge as we approach release. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. 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. Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task. 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.

The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. This is an exciting time for fusion 360. The flange tool itself will only create developable surfaces.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. 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. The goal is to create an actual physical product. 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. 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. Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules.