Fusion360 Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

Fusion360 sheet metal flat pattern. Sheet metal bodies with multiple radii curves or arcs in the sketch. First create a flat pattern of your sheet metal part by going to the modify drop down menu and select create flat pattern. Once you ve got it hop over to the drawings workspace and create a drawing from the design. An example of the procedure for a sat file is presented in the screencast below.

The sheet metal flat pattern can be viewed just like the simulation results renderings and cam toolpaths in a360 in a web browser. Create a small flat tab somewhere on your design that can be cut off during manufacturing and use that as the stationary face for the flat pattern. Since fusion 360 stores the data in the cloud the flat pattern is always available and up to date. Re assignment of the sheet metal rules for the resulting component will not be possible.

This box results in a pattern which is just a copy of the box but without all of the flange adjustment options. Sheet metal fabrication begins with flat sheets of various kinds of metal like aluminum stainless steel brass and nickel. These sheets are cut according to a flat pattern using cnc milling water jet cutting laser cutting plasma cutting or a variety of other techniques. I seem to be getting the hang of the fusion360 sheet metal mode but the create flat pattern does not always seem to work.

To do that create the sheet metal part from scratch in fusion 360. More fusion 360 sheet metal. With fusion 360 sheet metal features you can design for manufacturing right from the start creating a flat pattern for sheet metal design projects. With fusion 360 you can import a hand sketch or a photograph as a reference sketch and use fusion sculpt to expand on your ideas creating smooth and precise curved 3d modeling surfaces.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Go to modify flat pattern. Only flat linear sections of sheet metal can be used as the stationary base face for a flat pattern.