Fusion 360 Solid Convert To Sheet Metal

Did you know that fusion 360 can convert your imported solid model to a sheet metal body.

Fusion 360 solid convert to sheet metal.

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. 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. The only work around is to delete the flange feature from the timeline and recreate it. There are plenty.

Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating an expensive 3rd party add in. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. Knowing we need an edge for our sheet metal our revolution stopped short of 360. Note that using the insert bend function requires a thin feature of uniform thickness to function.

Convert body to sheet metal. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Hi all i m designing a laser cutter and have drawn everything up in fusion 360.

This quick tip covers a workflow of importing the model automatica. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Since the flange tool defaults to the operation of creating a new body be careful.