topic How to make angled bends in Fusion 360 sheet metal in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

How to make angled bends in Fusion 360 sheet metal

martinhetschel — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 11:43:50 GMT

Any idea how to insert bends on a sheet metal (see top right corner). As far as I know you can only insert flanges on existing edges.

Re: How to make angled bends in Fusion 360 sheet metal

Brady_Fulton — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:01:38 GMT

How about this process:

Sketch on that face the line for the bend
extrude/cut that corner off
Create your flange
Unfold (not flat pattern)
another sketch to generate the "corner point"
Extrude/cut the excess
Refold

Lots of steps but it gets you there.

Heres a link to a mockup I just did:

http://a360.co/2hduf5u

Re: How to make angled bends in Fusion 360 sheet metal

martinhetschel — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:18:55 GMT

Thanks for your promt answer. That's the way was thinking as well (and did in the picture above). But this is pretty complicated and time intensive. Also it's not working with long and small parts, because there will be not enough "material" to cut after inserting a flange. With Solidworks it was possible to insert bends from a sketch (line) really easy. If there is no such function in Fusion 360, probably I should propose as idea...