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.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. How to make flat patterns for rolled sheet metal designs. Select the stationary face. 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 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. 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. Re assignment of the sheet metal rules for the resulting component will not be possible. Only flat linear sections of sheet metal can be used as the stationary base face for a flat pattern.

Go to modify flat pattern. To do that create the sheet metal part from scratch in fusion 360. Notice that the representation is now a flat pattern. 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. Sheet metal bodies with multiple radii curves or arcs in the sketch.