Fusion Sheet Metal Bend

Thinking about it that would seem to make sense from a keep it simple stupid approach to manufacturing.

Fusion sheet metal bend.

Omit bend extent lines. 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. The goal is to create an actual physical product.

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360. But in fusion we design the finished sheet metal part. Open the sheet metal workbench.

Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating. Did stay entirely in the sheet metal space though so maybe i m not using the word appropriately. 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. Edge height is 10mm by default editable from 0 1 to xxxmm.

Sheet metal bend lines cannot currently be removed from a 2d drawing in fusion 360. 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. Select 1 thickness of the edge edge of the base plate and click on the bend tool 90 default bend angle can be changed from 0 to 90. I thought this counted as hybrid since i didn t strictly complete it only with flange and or bend.

Bending radius is by default equal to thickness editable from 0 1 to xxmm never put 0. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. 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. In this quick tutorial video synergis eds applications consultant dave breiner looks at the new bend feature within autodesk fusion 360 sheet metal.