Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

Select the stationary face.

Fusion 360 sheet metal flat pattern.

Notice that the representation is now a flat pattern. Re assignment of the sheet metal rules for the resulting component will not be possible. 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. How to make flat patterns for rolled sheet metal designs.

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. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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.

Only flat linear sections of sheet metal can be used as the stationary base face for a flat pattern. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. 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. First create a flat pattern of your sheet metal part by going to the modify drop down menu and select create flat pattern.

Once you ve got it hop over to the drawings workspace and create a drawing from the design. Go to modify flat pattern.