Fusion360 Sheet Metal Not

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

Fusion360 sheet metal not.

Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360. Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded.

There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. Recently autodesk released a suite of tools for designing sheet metal parts in fusion 360. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.

These tools make sheet metal design much easier and more accessible for those of us who do not design sheet metal pieces professionally. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree. The body is a brep body rather than a sheet metal body.

The example part we will be designing. In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.

Now the body can be selected in the unfold command. To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part.