Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Unfold Drawing

It was exactly the right tool for what i needed.

Fusion 360 sheet metal unfold drawing.

Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different. The body is a brep body rather than a sheet metal body. Unable to unfold a part in fusion 360. 1 create a plane above your part at some set distance.

In creating the latest sheet metal part i found a reason to try out the unfold refold functions in fusion 360. Now the body can be selected in the unfold command. 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. The one you are most familiar with is the model workspace in which you can create sketches and three dimensional geometries.

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. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a. So you ll unfold create your cuts then refold. Where fusion 360 will be different is the unfold command will be a mode similar to sketch or sculpt.

Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture. Keeping the features grouped makes it simple to roll back and update later. Everything between the unfold and refold will be grouped in the timeline. You might also use the render or drawing workspaces.

Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded. Fusion 360 s sheet metal workspace includes the ability to export dxf files pretty easily. When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent. Fusion 360 has several different workspaces that give you access to different sets of tools.

To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part. But for the purpose of this instructable we ll show how to make this workflow work for parts that aren t actually sheet metal parts.