Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Unfold Drawing

Fusion 360 has several different workspaces that give you access to different sets of tools.

Fusion 360 sheet metal unfold drawing.

You might also use the render or drawing workspaces. But for the purpose of this instructable we ll show how to make this workflow work for parts that aren t actually sheet metal parts. To unfold the body convert the body to a sheet metal part. Fusion 360 s sheet metal workspace includes the ability to export dxf files pretty easily.

1 create a plane above your part at some set distance. When selecting the unfold command the model body becomes transparent. Keeping the features grouped makes it simple to roll back and update later. A component may be shown as a sheet metal component but there may be a.

The portion of the model in question is located on the end of the flange. It was exactly the right tool for what i needed. This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere. Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different.

Only sheet metal bodies can be unfolded. 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. Everything between the unfold and refold will be grouped in the timeline. Now the body can be selected in the unfold command.

The one you are most familiar with is the model workspace in which you can create sketches and three dimensional geometries. 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. The body is a brep body rather than a sheet metal body. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture.

Unable to unfold a part in fusion 360. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern.