Fusion 360 Solid Into Sheet Metal

Note that using the insert bend function requires a thin feature of uniform thickness to function.

Fusion 360 solid into sheet metal.

Knowing we need an edge for our sheet metal our revolution stopped short of 360. There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree. Sometimes these faces can get in the way of altering the design to your.

Thickness bend radius k factor relief shapes etc. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update. Properties are the root of how sheet metal designs behave. 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.

In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Non native parts are imported into fusion 360 as solids or surfaces and need to be converted into sheet metal components before flattening. Since the flange tool defaults to the operation of creating a new body be careful.

Fusion 360 folds 5 sheet metal flange commands base edge contour miter and swept into one flange command. 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. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.

Cleaning up faces of an stl file in fusion 360. How can it be flattened. The command is aware of what is being selected and will automatically switch to the right command. 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 only work around is to delete the flange feature from the timeline and recreate it. 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.