Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Unfold

Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded.

Fusion 360 sheet metal unfold.

The portion of the model in question is located on the end of the flange. 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. It was exactly the right tool for what i needed. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

Add a flange to each side trimming each to the desired shape. How to omit bend lines in a sheet metal flat pattern from a 2d fusion 360 drawing. You need to start with a base sketch to create the initial bottom flange. This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere.

Trim the flange to the truncated triangular shape. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. Our intention is to provide you a simple way to build your library by providing you with a handful of starter rules you can copy edit and save to your library. Thickness bend radius k factor relief shapes etc.

Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. We re calling these sheet metal rules in fusion 360. Properties are the root of how sheet metal designs behave. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a.

Now the body can be selected in the unfold command. 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 example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo. Iinm there is no loft in the sheet metal workspace.

When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent. Sheet metal bend lines cannot currently be removed from a 2d drawing in fusion 360. In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. The body is a brep body rather than a sheet metal body.

To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part. Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different. Unable to unfold a part in fusion 360.