Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Thickness

The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs.

Fusion 360 sheet metal thickness. Sheet metal thickness is typically specified as a gauge rather than a direct measurement as it is presented in fusion 360. Non native parts are imported into fusion 360 as solids or surfaces and need to be converted into sheet metal components before flattening. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.

Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values. Thickness bend radius k factor relief shapes etc. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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.

Your sheet metal manufacturer or supplier should have a document detailing the availability. How can it be flattened. So to figure out the thickness you want to use for the material it is useful to refer to a chart of sheet metal specifications. If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.

In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. We re calling these sheet metal rules in fusion 360. Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. Valdimir s trick of using the fusion 360 sheet metal tools is genius and it works like a charm.

In this tutorial tuesday we ll add some steps to vladimir s fusion 360 workflow to set a better thickness for the ring. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. However the sheet metal tools set a default thickness which can result in a ring that is too bulky for our liking. Our intention is to provide you a simple way to build your library by providing you with a handful of starter rules you can copy edit and save to your library.