A sheet metal part with a non f3d format for instance xt sat step was imported into fusion 360.
Fusion 360 solid into sheet metal.
Now fusion 360 did a pretty good job of processing this file and turning it into a solid body but you ll see here in the picture that there are still a lot of triangular surface faces that make up the solid body.
The only work around is to delete the flange feature from the timeline and recreate it.
The command is aware of what is being selected and will automatically switch to the right command.
Thickness bend radius k factor relief shapes etc.
Cleaning up faces of an stl file in fusion 360.
Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree.
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.
Sometimes these faces can get in the way of altering the design to your.
Fusion 360 has released the sheet metal modeling environment.
Note that using the insert bend function requires a thin feature of uniform thickness to function.
There are plenty.
In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons.
How can it be flattened.
Fusion 360 folds 5 sheet metal flange commands base edge contour miter and swept into one flange command.
We re calling these sheet metal rules in fusion 360.
Since the flange tool defaults to the operation of creating a new body be careful.
Properties are the root of how sheet metal designs behave.
There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar.
If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.
Let s show how to create sheet metal bends folds flange unfold flat pattern and more.
Knowing we need an edge for our sheet metal our revolution stopped short of 360.
With insert bends we can quickly convert our solid body to a sheet metal body that would have been fairly difficult and time consuming to create.
