Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Bend

Fusion 360 has all the necessary tools to specify different rules for your sheet metal parts thickness bend radius corner relief etc now here is the fun part actually making some sheet metal.

Fusion 360 sheet metal bend. Here is a look at the new bend feature within fusion 360 sheet metal. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs. Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.

Sheet metal bend lines cannot currently be removed from a 2d drawing in fusion 360. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values. In this video synergis eds applications consultant dave breiner will import an existing dxf pattern file and use it to create the shape and bends of a bracket within autodesk fusion 360.

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

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.