Fusion 360 Add Bend Sheet Metal

You can picture this by imagining the process of making a sheet metal component.

Fusion 360 add bend sheet metal.

The initial tab included the bend and the visible line and did not stand up in the folded state. Live stream i will share my sheet metal tips for taking things to the next level. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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.

Don t forget guys if you like our vide. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. When the part is manufactured the entire flat sheet metal shape will be bent by hand or by cnc bending tools to create the finished form. In other words it was part of the sheet and in the folded state it was bent right over along with the rest of the sheet.

So i unfolded just that bend cut away the tab with one extrude rebuilt the tab with the same extrude and it solved that issue. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Link to vote for improved sheet metal tools in fusion. This is fusion 360 and we will chat about your comments and questions.

Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. 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.