Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Unfold Drawing

Everything between the unfold and refold will be grouped in the timeline.

Fusion 360 sheet metal unfold drawing.

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. You might also use the render or drawing workspaces. Keeping the features grouped makes it simple to roll back and update later. The one you are most familiar with is the model workspace in which you can create sketches and three dimensional geometries.

1 create a plane above your part at some set distance. Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded. So you ll unfold create your cuts then refold. Where fusion 360 will be different is the unfold command will be a mode similar to sketch or sculpt.

But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a. To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part. When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent.

The portion of the model in question is located on the end of the flange. 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. It was exactly the right tool for what i needed. Now the body can be selected in the unfold command.

This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere. Fusion 360 s sheet metal workspace includes the ability to export dxf files pretty easily. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. The body is a brep body rather than a sheet metal body.

In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. But for the purpose of this instructable we ll show how to make this workflow work for parts that aren t actually sheet metal parts.