Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Unfold Drawing

The body is a brep body rather than a sheet metal body.

Fusion 360 sheet metal unfold drawing.

Where fusion 360 will be different is the unfold command will be a mode similar to sketch or sculpt. It was exactly the right tool for what i needed. Keeping the features grouped makes it simple to roll back and update later. To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part.

Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. You might also use the render or drawing workspaces. Everything between the unfold and refold will be grouped in the timeline. Omit bend extent lines omitting bend extent lines will not fully remove bend lines but will give only one line per bend rather than three.

Now the body can be selected in the unfold command. When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent. Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different. So you ll unfold create your cuts then refold.

Unable to unfold a part in fusion 360. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360.

Fusion 360 s sheet metal workspace includes the ability to export dxf files pretty easily. Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded. 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. 1 create a plane above your part at some set distance.

Fusion 360 has several different workspaces that give you access to different sets of tools. The portion of the model in question is located on the end of the flange.