How To Add Sheet Metal Feature To Fusion 360

Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.

How to add sheet metal feature to fusion 360.

I have not found a method of converting a sheet metal body to a sheet metal component capable of being edited in the fusion 360 sheet metal environment. The goal is to create an actual physical product. Since the flange tool defaults to the operation of creating a new body be careful. Link to vote for improved sheet metal tools in fusion.

Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. You might also use the render or drawing workspaces. The only work around is to delete the flange feature from the timeline and recreate it. The tools for designing sheet metal parts are in a recently added workspace the sheet metal workspace.

Traditional cad tools only take your sheet metal design from concept to dxf without integrating an expensive 3rd party add in. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern.