We re calling these sheet metal rules in fusion 360.
Fusion 360 solid into sheet metal.
Thickness bend radius k factor relief shapes etc.
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.
Non native parts are imported into fusion 360 as solids or surfaces and need to be converted into sheet metal components before flattening.
Note that using the insert bend function requires a thin feature of uniform thickness to function.
Properties are the root of how sheet metal designs behave.
In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons.
There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar.
Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.
There are plenty.
Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.
Since the flange tool defaults to the operation of creating a new body be careful.
Cleaning up faces of an stl file in fusion 360.
The command is aware of what is being selected and will automatically switch to the right command.
Knowing we need an edge for our sheet metal our revolution stopped short of 360.
Sometimes these faces can get in the way of altering the design to your.
With insert bends we can quickly convert our solid body to a sheet metal body that would have been fairly difficult and time consuming to create.
How can it be flattened.
Fusion 360 folds 5 sheet metal flange commands base edge contour miter and swept into one flange command.
Now fusion 360 did a pretty good job of processing this file and turning it into a solid body but you ll see here in the picture that there are still a lot of triangular surface faces that make up the solid body.
Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.
The only work around is to delete the flange feature from the timeline and recreate it.
Old user interface prior to august 2019 update.