Fusion360 Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

First create a flat pattern of your sheet metal part by going to the modify drop down menu and select create flat pattern.

Fusion360 sheet metal flat pattern.

Notice that the representation is now a flat pattern. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Sheet metal bodies with multiple radii curves or arcs in the sketch. An example of the procedure for a sat file is presented in the screencast below.

Re assignment of the sheet metal rules for the resulting component will not be possible. Since fusion 360 stores the data in the cloud the flat pattern is always available and up to date. Sheet metal fabrication begins with flat sheets of various kinds of metal like aluminum stainless steel brass and nickel. Go to modify flat pattern.

Only flat linear sections of sheet metal can be used as the stationary base face for a flat pattern. To do that create the sheet metal part from scratch in fusion 360. This box results in a pattern which is just a copy of the box but without all of the flange adjustment options. I seem to be getting the hang of the fusion360 sheet metal mode but the create flat pattern does not always seem to work.

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. More fusion 360 sheet metal. The sheet metal flat pattern can be viewed just like the simulation results renderings and cam toolpaths in a360 in a web browser. Once you ve got it hop over to the drawings workspace and create a drawing from the design.

With fusion 360 sheet metal features you can design for manufacturing right from the start creating a flat pattern for sheet metal design projects. 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. 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.