Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Bend Lines

To export a dxf without bend extent lines use the following steps.

Fusion 360 sheet metal bend lines.

Sheet metal flat pattern and bend lines for 2d drawings are also coming. 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. 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. Promm 3 years ago options.

After all a company s goal isn t to just create shapes in a cad program. Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more. Create a sketch from an offset plane or on the flat pattern. Project the body or desired profile and the center line bends.

Export the sketch as dxf. Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment. 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. 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 goal is to create an actual physical product. Hide the extent bend lines. 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. 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.

Exported flat pattern dxfs still contain hidden bend extent lines even when they are hidden prior to export. 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. Activate the flat pattern.