Intro to SHEET METAL in Fusion 360 - Sheet Metal Beginners Start Here!

what's up guys Justin here with the fusion essentials comm back with another Autodesk fusion 360 tutorial for you so in today's video we're gonna talk about how to get started using the sheet metal modeling tools inside of fusion 360 so let's go ahead and just jump into it alright so what I want to do in this video is I want to introduce you to the tool set contained inside of the sheet metal tools in fusion 360 and so what I want to do is I want to give you kind of an overview of the way that this works so that you can start modeling with it if there are specific questions or specific applications you'd like to see let me know and we can get into those in the future but for now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go over into the tab that says sheet metal and we're gonna use this in order to create a sheet metal design and so pretty much every time you create an object inside of fusion 360 that's going to be a sheet metal object like something that you might want to make a flat pattern out of or something like that you're gonna want to start by creating a new component so we're gonna click on new component and in this case we're gonna create an empty component you can name it if you want to and then notice that you can set the rules for this so you can set if this is going to be steel if it's gonna be aluminum other things like that when you first start right here so pick your material I'm just gonna leave it as steel for right now and click on OK so all that did is that created an object over here called component 1 and then from there we're gonna start by creating a base shape that we're gonna create our sheet metal from so to do that we're gonna click on the button for create sketch so this is gonna operate in exactly the same way a sketch mode in the solid modeling toolset works and what we want to do is we just want to click on this face right here and we're just going to start by drawing a base shape so I'm just gonna draw a simple rectangle for this example so we'll just draw a rectangle we'll call it two and a half by two and a half and click on finish sketch and so what we've done is we've created an object that we can then use in order to start creating our sheet metal and so the first thing you need to do is you need to give this thickness which we're going to do using the flange option up above so this is gonna allow us to give our metal a thick so we're gonna do is we're gonna activate the flange option then just click on this face right here and notice how at the moment the only thing that's gonna allow me to do is it's gonna allow me to create a thickened object right so I can't do anything else at this yet because there's no actual material in here and so we're just gonna click on okay what that's gonna do is that's going to give us the thickness of our metal well then we can use the flange tool and in order to start adding flanges so notice how when I click on the flange tool and then I mouse over these different edges they kind of highlight and so what that indicates is that indicates that you can use this in order to create a flange or a bent piece of metal so I'm going to click on this one for example when I click on this one what this is going to do is this is going to give me a little arrow well if I click and drag on this little arrow notice that what this is doing is this is basically giving me it's automatically giving me a bend in this piece of metal and so you can set the angle that this is bent by using this rotation tool right here or by entering a value over here as well as adjusting some other items as well so you can set if your bend position is going to be inside or outside you can set if it's going to be adjacent and so what you can do is you can use this in order to create these different flanges so now if I click on OK I'm gonna reactivate the flange tool and click on like this edge for example notice how I can add something in here that allows me to bend this again so I can use this to basically start adding different pieces of metal different flanges inside a fusion 360 and so one of the cool things about this is you can select multiple edges when you do this so for example I can do a shift click and I can select all of these and then I can use this to bend this up in order to create a sheet metal shape right here and notice how what this is doing at the moment is this is giving this to me just as if these were bent up and they were created as like tabs and so there's also also multiple different options for the ways that you can extrude based on edges or you create flanges based on edge is so for example with this flat flange tool we were doing before as we've set this to be the full edge right so what this is going to do is this is going to basically bend this along this full edge just like this however there's also options over here for symmetric and so what symmetric means is not only can you adjust how long this end is but you can also adjust symmetrically on both sides if this has an offset like this or you could also set it where one side is different than the other so this allows you a lot of different options for the creation of things like tabs so for example let's say and what we could do here is we could flip this so that it goes the other direction you could actually model this out and then bend it down so we could use this in order to kind of align this with this other shape if we wanted to we probably would have wanted to extrude this up a little bit and so we could also use this to bend this flange over this edge and obviously there's some things we might want to adjust here but for right now let's say we wanted to adjust this flange so that it bends over this face right here well what you can do because you can see how this is intersecting this object right now but you could adjust your bend position so that it's adjacent like this well when it's adjacent what that allows you to do is that allows you to take this shape and actually create it so that it bends over something and obviously there's some more work that can be done to make this work exactly but you can see the power of creating these flanges inside the sheet metal tool so the other cool thing about this is you can also use the tools in here to create a flat pattern so you can actually use this in order to create cutouts of different metal pieces it can be sent to different cutting or routing machines or whatever you want here by using this flat pattern tool so the way that works is you click on this button for create flat pattern it's gonna ask for a stationery face so in this case I'm just gonna select this face right here and click on OK well what this is gonna do because this is built with the sheet metal tools this is actually gonna go through and this is gonna figure out it's going to give you kind of a cutting diagram in here it's also going to give you Bend points for these objects so you can export this like a DXF or kind of whatever you want to you can also create a plan with this tool so by using this what this allows you to do is this allows you to model something in 3d and then flatten it so that you can cut the different parts and pieces up the way that you want them to be and notice if you ever want to go back to your 3d view you can just click on this button right here to finish your flat pattern that'll take you back to your 3d view then you can view that flat pattern just by coming over here see how this gets created as a flat pattern in your browser you can right-click on this and click on activate and that'll take you to that view so you can move back and forth between those just by doing that and I believe they'll haven't really tested this I believe you can make changes to that and it'll update but again I haven't really had a chance to test that option quite yet so that is a very fast very high-level overview of the sheetmetal tools inside of fusion 360 leave a comment below let me know what else 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Length: 7min 34sec (454 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 10 2020