Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Bend Lines

Exported flat pattern dxfs still contain hidden bend extent lines even when they are hidden prior to export.

Fusion 360 sheet metal bend lines.

Project the body or desired profile and the center line bends. Sheet metal flat pattern and bend lines for 2d drawings are also coming. Be greatly appreciated if someone from the fusion 360 team could provide an update on the release of the long awaited sheet metal functionality for fusion 360. Activate the flat pattern.

The flat pattern piece and bend notes are there but that s the extent of it. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. The goal is to create an actual physical product. You will probably be missing the bend notes and if you want those displayed right click on in the view select properties and set the bend notes check box to show.

Create a sketch from an offset plane or on the flat pattern. Promm 3 years ago options. I m electrical engineer doing some sheet metal projects i have a question when doing sheet metal i have 3 bend lines which line are the autodesk fusion360 header nav label product name sign in. While there is not currently a way to fully omit bend lines from a 2d drawing of a sheet metal flat pattern in fusion 360 there are a number of ways to work around this limitation.

After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Go to the feature tree and expand the view and drill down to the bend line sketch right click on it and set it to show. To export a dxf without bend extent lines use the following steps. Omit bend extent lines omitting bend extent lines will not fully remove bend lines but will give only one line per bend rather than three.

Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. Hide the extent bend lines. I ve made sure that the sketch is set to show my sheetmetal settings on the drawing all seem to match what i ve read they should be.