Fusion Sheet Metal Bend

Omit bend extent lines.

Fusion sheet metal bend.

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. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating. Sheet metal bend lines cannot currently be removed from a 2d drawing in fusion 360.

I thought this counted as hybrid since i didn t strictly complete it only with flange and or bend. Thinking about it that would seem to make sense from a keep it simple stupid approach to manufacturing. Did stay entirely in the sheet metal space though so maybe i m not using the word appropriately. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Bending radius is by default equal to thickness editable from 0 1 to xxmm never put 0. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo. 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.

Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. Basically it got rid of the bend between the two ends of the kerf while keeping the bends on the outsides of the tab. As a result it follows around the bend of the flange. In this quick tutorial video synergis eds applications consultant dave breiner looks at the new bend feature within autodesk fusion 360 sheet metal.

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. But in fusion we design the finished sheet metal part. Edge height is 10mm by default editable from 0 1 to xxxmm. Open the sheet metal workbench.