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.

The goal is to create an actual physical product. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo.

In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. 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. Omit bend extent lines.

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. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating.

Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task. Click read more for video. Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part.

Here is a look at the new bend feature within fusion 360 sheet metal.