Fusion 360 Add Bend Sheet Metal

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

Fusion 360 add bend sheet metal.

The goal is to create an actual physical product. 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 example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo. The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs.

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. Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating an expensive 3rd party add in.

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. I look forward to all of your feedback and insights as we continue to add functionality to 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 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture.

Unfortunately sheet metal will only unfold developable surfaces. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task. This is an exciting time for fusion 360.

Look out for a upcoming post about our sheet metal challenge as we approach release. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. Automated nesting of sheet metal components.