Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Bend

After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program.

Fusion 360 sheet metal bend.

Sheet metal bend lines cannot currently be removed from a 2d drawing in fusion 360. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating. In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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 sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. 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. 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.

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. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Click read more for video.

The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo.