Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Cone

Fusion 360 promises to integrate the product development process from design to production.

Fusion 360 sheet metal cone.

The process is called revolve. It basically involves creating a cylinder flattening it writing and extruding our text and then re folding it. Rather than being a tool for design to flat pattern fusion 360 will be a tool that integrates design to manufacture. This integration ensures a design change made anywhere in the process from concept to production will reflect everywhere.

There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Fusion 360 supports this action directly. If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.

After experimenting with the new sheet metal environment i found a much simpler way of accomplishing this task. Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update. Fusion 360 is the only tool to integrate design to manufacture.

I will go through each step in this instructable. But fusion 360 doesn t just integrate the process from design to flat pattern. It is grateful to see fusion 360 improve update after update and you can expect improvements to this tool in the future. This video will show you a simple process for making conical sheet metal components that will unfold in autodesk fusion 360.

In the sculpt workspace choose create revolve. Extruding text around a cylinder use to be a tedious process with fusion 360. The sheet metal toolset will do just that. How to loft from two sketched circles one smaller than the other to create a cone shape.

The default is steel but you can change it to either one of the other rules or you can create a new rule and make that the default. I will update this post when it happens. Then shell the cone to make it hollow. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.

Now you get why fusion 360 s sheet metal is different.