Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

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.

Fusion 360 sheet metal flat pattern.

Notice that the representation is now a flat pattern. With fusion 360 sheet metal features you can design for manufacturing right from the start creating a flat pattern for sheet metal design projects. To do that create the sheet metal part from scratch in fusion 360. How to make flat patterns for rolled sheet metal designs.

Select the stationary face. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Re assignment of the sheet metal rules for the resulting component will not be possible. Go to modify flat pattern.

Once you ve got it hop over to the drawings workspace and create a drawing from the design. First create a flat pattern of your sheet metal part by going to the modify drop down menu and select create flat pattern. 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. An example of the procedure for a sat file is presented in the screencast below.

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. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.