Fusion 360 Solid Into Sheet Metal

Old user interface prior to august 2019 update.

Fusion 360 solid into sheet metal.

Note that using the insert bend function requires a thin feature of uniform thickness to function. I have not found a method of converting a sheet metal body to a sheet metal component capable of being edited in the fusion 360 sheet metal environment. 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. The command is aware of what is being selected and will automatically switch to the right command.

Since the flange tool defaults to the operation of creating a new body be careful. In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree. Knowing we need an edge for our sheet metal our revolution stopped short of 360.

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. The only work around is to delete the flange feature from the timeline and recreate it. Sometimes these faces can get in the way of altering the design to your. Cleaning up faces of an stl file in fusion 360.

There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. Fusion 360 folds 5 sheet metal flange commands base edge contour miter and swept into one flange command. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Non native parts are imported into fusion 360 as solids or surfaces and need to be converted into sheet metal components before flattening.

Thickness bend radius k factor relief shapes etc. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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. A sheet metal part with a non f3d format for instance xt sat step was imported into fusion 360.

If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history. There are plenty.