Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Flat Pattern

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 sheet metal flat pattern.

Go to modify flat pattern. To do that create the sheet metal part from scratch in fusion 360. First create a flat pattern of your sheet metal part by going to the modify drop down menu and select create 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 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Select the stationary face. Only flat linear sections of sheet metal can be used as the stationary base face for a 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. With fusion 360 sheet metal features you can design for manufacturing right from the start creating a flat pattern for sheet metal design projects. 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. How to make flat patterns for rolled sheet metal designs.

Notice that the representation is now a flat pattern. Sheet metal bodies with multiple radii curves or arcs in the sketch.