Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Cone

Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture.

Fusion 360 sheet metal cone.

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. Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different. In the tutorial video we re presented with a cone designed with the revolve shell and cut extrude features. Then shell the cone to make it hollow.

This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere. 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. Create only one half of the nose cone curve and maintain a standard axis reference say using the y axis as the rotation point. There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar.

But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. The process is called revolve. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree. How to loft from two sketched circles one smaller than the other to create a cone shape.

Old user interface prior to august 2019 update.