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sheet metal enhancements in fusion 360

sheet metal enhancements in fusion 360

I would like to see some basic fusion 360 sheet metal features:

 

Water tight corner seals (2 corner and 3 corner). Currently there is not a way to make a water tight seal and a flat pattern. I can create a represtentation of it in 3D but this will error out the flat pattern.

 

Normal cutout: When placing a cutout at an angle you get the standard cut through cutout in which you have to clean these areas out on the flat pattern to make it ready for CAM processing. Cutouts in sheet metal should default to a normal to thickness cut to avoid these extra work arounds.

 

Inside angle callout in drawings: All the CNC press brakes that I have used for bending sheet metal I need to enter the inside angle for the bend, not the outside angle. We should have the option to toggle to have the angle callout inside or outside.

 

Formed features: Would like to have a library of louvers, dimples, bend gussets, to add the sheet metal model and still get a flat pattern.

 

Cross brakes: A common break in sheet metal manufacturing especially in the HVAC world to add stiffness to a wide area of thin material.

 

Etch command: Waterjets use this as scribes. Plasmas and lasers use etch to place geometry such as part ID, technical information, or even logos onto sheet metal manufactured parts.

 

If we move to the manufacturing side there is a large community that would like an CAM extension for CNC press brake bending.

 

There is also a large community of CNC punches and laser punch combintation machines that would love the CAM application for these machines.

 

Non sheet metal but in the manufacturing world, CAM for tube laser and tube punch machines. 

 

 

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