topic Re: Sheetmetal dustpan in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Sheetmetal dustpan

lynden.briggs1 — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:26:22 GMT

Hi there Autodesk community. I'm fairly new at Fusion so please excuse if this is a simple question. I have a dustpan I am trying to draw in Sheetmetal. I cannot work out how to draw this old dust pan design I wanted to update. It is frustrating because it seems such a simple design but i feel like i can't get past step 2. I feel like i wish i could draw in the flat and fold to shape but as far as i understand this is not how its done. I draw the biggest flat part on the bottom but when i turn into flange i cannot change the size of the next flange that holds the handle. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks for your time in advance, Lynden.

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

TheCADWhisperer — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:23:42 GMT

Whoever created that drawing could benefit from a Technical Drafting 101 class.

Are you famliar with the 4 rules of sheet metal?

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

lynden.briggs1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:02:10 GMT

?Haha yes i agree i think that drawing is crap too but i like the general concept which is why i wanted to improve into a more worthy drawing. The four rules of sheet metal?? I will say no? I have watched Lars tutes on sheetmetal and researched kfactor, but alas I am still frustrated with this project. I fell like it wouldn't take long at all if i knew what i was doing a bit more. Have you tried drawing this object? Is it easy? Thanks for taking time to reply BTW I wasn't sure if i would get a reply like I said I'm fairly knew to the whole game but super keen to improve I just feel stuck on this one.

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

lynden.briggs1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:13:37 GMT

Can you show me a link to the best tutorial or solutions page to solve this problem? Thanks again, Lynden.

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

carl.j.barker — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:10:13 GMT

Thought I'd give this a go using just the sheetmetal workspace. I used your flat pattern as a layout sketch/cropping template. I'm not as impressed with the workflow as I would like, changing the layout sketch will likely cause issues down the time line. I couldn't get the angles stated in the instruction to work correctly so I took a bit of licence there.

The whole thing involved some to-ing and fro-ing with bend reliefs and angles - since F360 becomes far too unreasonable with intersecting bodies (good so you don't create impossibilities at the end of the day, but can be a pain since sometimes its more intuitive to fix an intersection after it happens rather then before)

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

TheCADWhisperer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:49:31 GMT

... i wanted to improve into a more worthy drawing. The four rules of sheet metal?..

I am surprised that Lars did not cover these rules as they are fundamental to sheet metal design in any MCAD software.

Here are a couple of completed examples - when I get a chance - I will post examples with Timeline intact. (I have to convert steps from other software to Fusion techniques).

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

lynden.briggs1 — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:29:21 GMT

Thankyou so much. Your help is very humbling to me. You people have been great and i hope to one day be a qualified designer like you guys and help contribute also. Thanks again , Lynden

Re: Sheetmetal dustpan

lynden.briggs1 — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:59:13 GMT

Perfect. Great drawing. Thanks for taking the time this is exactly how i imagined it should be. Thanks again and i will look at this and try some more. Thanks Lynden