Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Yet

Recently autodesk released a suite of tools for designing sheet metal parts in fusion 360.

Fusion 360 sheet metal yet.

This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360. Fusion 360 for personal use is free for 1 year for qualifying non commercial users. This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere. However the sheet metal tools set a default thickness which can result in a ring that is too bulky for our liking.

Link to vote for improved sheet metal tools in fusion. Valdimir s trick of using the fusion 360 sheet metal tools is genius and it works like a charm. There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture.

Sheet metal rules library has been corrupted. These tools make sheet metal design much easier and more accessible for those of us who do not design sheet metal pieces professionally. To get the 6 standard library rules back. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.

A hobbyist user must generate less than 1 000 usd in annual revenue using fusion 360 for home based non commercial design manufacturing and fabrication projects. 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. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update.

Steel mm stainless steel mm aluminium mm steel in stainless steel in aluminium in are missing from the library in the dialog box sheet metal rules in sheet metal workspace. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values. In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Five out of the six standard pre defined sheet metal rules.

But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. In this tutorial tuesday we ll add some steps to vladimir s fusion 360 workflow to set a better thickness for the ring. Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different. If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.