Fusion360 Sheet Metal Not

This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.

Fusion360 sheet metal not.

These tools make sheet metal design much easier and more accessible for those of us who do not design sheet metal pieces professionally. The example part we will be designing. To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a. Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating.

Now the body can be selected in the unfold command. Recently autodesk released a suite of tools for designing sheet metal parts in fusion 360. Unable to unfold a part in fusion 360. The goal is to create an actual physical product.

There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.

Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded. Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part.