Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Bend

Omit bend extent lines.

Fusion 360 sheet metal bend.

After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating. Fusion 360 has all the necessary tools to specify different rules for your sheet metal parts thickness bend radius corner relief etc now here is the fun part actually making some sheet metal.

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. Sheet metal bend lines cannot currently be removed from a 2d drawing in fusion 360. Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.

The goal is to create an actual physical product. In this video synergis eds applications consultant dave breiner will import an existing dxf pattern file and use it to create the shape and bends of a bracket within autodesk fusion 360. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360. Click read more for video.

Naturally with fusion 360 introducing sheet metal i ve been jumping on the sheet metal portion of my self imposed task. Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. Here is a look at the new bend feature within fusion 360 sheet metal. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values.

The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo.