Fusion How To Design With Sheet Metal

Sheet metal design software considers the fabrication methods needed for manufacturing.

Fusion how to design with sheet metal.

Link to vote for improved sheet metal tools in fusion. In your fusion 360 design workspace click the sheet metal tab and select new component. Ensure that you have sheet metal component ticked and choose empty component 3. The goal is to create an actual physical product.

I ve named mine box. Not only can fusion 360 bend up sheet metal it can also take your design all the way through to manufacturing your part. As you create flanges and add bends the sheet metal design software will accurately represent the flat pattern required. 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 can be shared with manufacturers to get your sheet metal parts made.

We ll learn how to create a new rule and edit some of the characteristics. Follow the steps in the example below to create your sheet metal assembly. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Creating a sheet metal assembly.

Give the new component a name and select the material from your library. The example part we will be designing is a bracket for the hitec hs 5065mg servo. This article covers how to get started with sheet metal design in fusion 360.