Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Cone

But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern.

Fusion 360 sheet metal cone.

The process is called revolve. When applying the insert bends feature located on the sheet metal toolbar or from the insert dropdown menu under sheet metal solidworks tells us a non linear edge at the seam of this cone is invalid. If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history. Create a single line sketch that would represent the desired curve starting from in this example the nose of the cone and traveling to the base.

In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. How to loft from two sketched circles one smaller than the other to create a cone shape.

Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree. Fusion 360 supports this action. Create only one half of the nose cone curve and maintain a standard axis reference say using the y axis as the rotation point. Then shell the cone to make it hollow.

In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features.