How To Add Sheet Metal To Fusion 360
If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.
How to add sheet metal to fusion 360. Create a sketch of the projection of the sheet. In this quick tutorial video synergis eds applications consultant dave breiner looks at the new bend feature within autodesk fusion 360 sheet metal. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Place a vertex at the tangent point of the curvature.
You first thought may be to select the sheet metal body in the browser right click and select create components from bodies command from the context menu. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update. Thanks for checking out this quick tip. Link to vote for improved sheet metal tools in fusion.
Aaron has a sketch like that but fusion can interpolate along the edge and automatically fix the sketch or add material to create the flange. Select create loft in the patch work space. Select the projected sketch 1 and the vertex 2 as profiles to loft. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.
If you do you will be met with an unpleasant warning from fusion 360 that the operation is not supported for sheet metal bodies. Don t forget to show us what you re making with fusion 360 sheet metal. This is fusion360 tutorial like. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture.
A metal sheet curved in two directions can be modeled in fusion 360 by following these steps. There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern.