Fusion 360 Add Bend Sheet Metal

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.

Fusion 360 add bend sheet metal.

The flange tool itself will only create developable surfaces. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating an expensive 3rd party add in. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. Look out for a upcoming post about our sheet metal challenge as we approach release. The goal is to create an actual physical product. This is an exciting time for fusion 360.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values. Unfortunately sheet metal will only unfold developable surfaces.

Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. 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. Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task.

Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. I look forward to all of your feedback and insights as we continue to add functionality to sheet metal. 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.