Fusion 360 Sheet Metal S Bend

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

Fusion 360 sheet metal s bend.

To make this design we will cover creating a base flange adding bends folding and unfolding the design virtually adding holes and other features and creating bending patterns that. It s bit tricky in fusion to create this kind of elbow in sheet metal so as i demonstrate the walkaround please feel free to give the comment about it. The goal is to create an actual physical product. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo.

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. Fusion 360 has all the necessary tools to specify different rules for your sheet metal parts thickness bend radius corner relief etc now here is the fun part actually making some sheet metal. Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules.

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