Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Bend Lines

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.

Fusion 360 sheet metal bend lines.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Be greatly appreciated if someone from the fusion 360 team could provide an update on the release of the long awaited sheet metal functionality for fusion 360. Hide the extent bend lines. 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.

Exported flat pattern dxfs still contain hidden bend extent lines even when they are hidden prior to export. After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Activate the flat pattern. You will probably be missing the bend notes and if you want those displayed right click on in the view select properties and set the bend notes check box to show.

I m electrical engineer doing some sheet metal projects i have a question when doing sheet metal i have 3 bend lines which line are the autodesk fusion360 header nav label product name sign in. Create a sketch from an offset plane or on the flat pattern. Promm 3 years ago options. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

Project the body or desired profile and the center line bends. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Export the sketch as dxf. I m currently using sw2010 at work and although it seems a simple task some of my parts aren t showing up with bend lines.

The flat pattern piece and bend notes are there but that s the extent of it. To export a dxf without bend extent lines use the following steps. I ve made sure that the sketch is set to show my sheetmetal settings on the drawing all seem to match what i ve read they should be.