Fusion 360 IdeaStation (Archived)

Technilamp · ‎02-11-2020

Great software package. However ,I would really appreciate, as I am sure many other users would, a sheet metal rolling function (e.g. cylinders, cones U shaped flat sheet).Many projects require cylindrical shapes, as there is no function to roll a cylinder in Fusion, you are always forced to look at another package to do the sheet metal rolling part of the project. It would certainly be a benefit to be able to do a complete project with one package.

WesleyTack · ‎02-11-2020

Hey, I'm new to Fusion 360, I have been doing 3D modelling for almost 15 to 20 years now, and I must say I love it, very powerful. And it seems you listen to feedback from all corners of the trade. I myself have been in metal construction for all my life as I grew up in it. We own a laser/waterjet/milling/lathe's etc.. so it's very nice to see this software being so powerful as it already is. One thing I'd like to see, if possible, is an apply button so you can change rules on the fly in some of the windows. I made an example in my attached image to show my meaning. Sincerely, - Wesley Tack

gsmontagebouw · ‎02-02-2020

Would like to see a way to create tubing frames with the possibillity of creating a cutting list of the tubing parts.

jean-michel_legoff · ‎01-27-2020

It's possible to simulate some packaging using sheet metal feature. It could also work to decaorate the 3D model applying a decal and keeping continuity from face to face, but the pity is that when you unfold the sheet metal model you lose the decal to see what to print flat, or whrer exactly the pattern was positioned. Many Thanks

pawel.potyrala · ‎01-23-2020

Currently, when creating a flat pattern from a sheet metal part, "Create Flat Pattern" option by default finds the ‘longest edge’ on the flattened body and aligns that longest edge to the positive X-axis, which may lead to unexpected results for certain geometries: Flat Pattern Changing Orientation It would make sense to introduce a Reorient flat pattern feature that would allow to adjust the orientation (see the feature within Inventor).

Anonymous · ‎01-10-2020

In a previous submission, ideas were offered how to measure complexity in CNC parts. Sheet metal parts can also be complex and need a ranking system early on in the design cycle. Since both CNC and sheet metal have a surface element count, The same complexity approach can be used. The simplest part is a bent angle -This is the standard of simple and has x surfaces Your complexity value is total number of surfaces of complex part divided by surfaces in a bent angle. Other value to consider - holes, notches, slots, emboss and indentations etc. should they be 1, 2 or 3? My suggestion is get with top sheet metal customers and test various values, ratios, operations and criteria to determine a worthy system. The benefit is ranking part designs and discovering too complex unworkable designs early before committing to building, prototyping and other manufacturing operations. Saving Time and Money Thanks, John

l_tofastrud · ‎12-17-2019

I often use XLR connectors and other (power) Chassis connectors in my sheet metal designs and I wish there was a way to insert these holes in "one go" rather than having to draw them every time.

benjamintoews · ‎12-17-2019

It would be great to have feature to add a small slot at the bend line when creating a flat pattern in sheet metal. The bend line is probably useful for something but there is no simple way to transfer it to something that can be cut. This could be useful for plasma, laser, water jet etc. Currently, I have to draw a small circle at each end of the bend line and extrude through the thickness of the material. (screen shot attached

carl.j.barker · ‎11-29-2019

Would it be possible to allow 'convert to sheet' to be used on a surface that has not been thickened, by selecting a side and a SM rule. Therefore doing the thicken and convert in one action? Would keep the timeline less cluttered.

Anonymous · ‎11-15-2019

Hey! I have a suggestion for the Sheet metal work space. After selecting an edge of a sheet metal body, if we could have the capability to define a flange distance, direction and bend angle based on a point or line from another sketch or entity edge found in the work space - that would be awesome! Let me know your thoughts on this! Cheers -Zach

Anonymous · ‎11-09-2019

HI Fusion team and users 🙂 You will add function place constraints like an inventor? i think is better than function assemble join you will add function join to plane or axis? in Inventor i do easy ( create axis catch component and place contrains to axis. Sorry for my english i am czech. i make elevator components from sheet metal in old inventor and fusion360 is not a same for me. But it is my problem 🙂

elwood165 · ‎10-11-2019

In the sheetmetal tab we need forming and punching tools for the easy function of punching holes for standard electronic components or custom components, plus we need the standard vent punches for air ventilation in the sheetmetal enclosure designs. 😁 The other item that will need to be located in the sheetmetal tab is the forming tool from sketch. Instructions Place a sketch (Square or rectangle with fillets on the corners). Push the wall of the sheet metal with the sketch and add taper and depth of the push, but make sure the designer is not able to over push the raised surface flange in the sheet metal design to an item that is not possible to manufacture. (Remember they need taper and the forming radii that will not rip the material for the calculations) (See below)😋

bryan5 · ‎09-08-2019

Would like to have the ability to have a normal cutout in sheet metal and avoid the step of unbending a part and remove the remnants of a regular cutout.

Anonymous · ‎08-19-2019

Need direct tool in create options(Sheet metal) for the hole with embossing.

Anonymous · ‎08-14-2019

Add API support for Metal Sheet

bryan5 · ‎08-03-2019

Fusion gives an automatic call out of the bend angle, of a sheet metal part in drawings of the outside angle. I would like the ability to switch this to the inside angle because this is the angle we enter at the press brake controller. In the picture below Fusion calls out the 60 degree angle in drawings. I need it to call out the inside angle of 120 degrees with out manually typing it in.

Adam_Skalik · ‎07-25-2019

Could You please fix issue in inspect feature which occurs while i need measure distance between two holes, now all three dimension are overlaping.

MariusBaard · ‎07-25-2019

We have 7 designers that would love to move over to Fusion 360. The problem is that you cannot have a bend radius smaller than 0.01 We would like it to be 0 or even -1 Can this be done?

Anonymous · ‎07-06-2019

Red Blu stereoskopic with compatybility menu made fom transparent plexiglass. Anagliphic conected with flated screans and artificial tuch by camera fov or infra red aproximations for transforming in mud or menues and tools not hiden like other hardware.

Anonymous · ‎06-29-2019

ive been working with sheet plastics for almost 10 years now. when modeling with plastics in the sheet metal space in fusion (or Solidworkds, inventor etc) i always come across the same issue. You cannot have a bend radius of zero. when bending most widely used sheet plastics you do not need to compensate for the bend radius. im not entirely sure why but this has always been the case for anything up-to around 10mm thick. anything upwards of 10mm may need some compensation, but very rarely. when we bend plastics there is indeed a bend radius and they're not sharp inside. but the flat panel size needs no compensation at all. it would be nice to be able to have an option for no compensation when creating flat patterns within fusion for now the only way around it is to give a bend radius value of something like 0.001 which works OK but doesn't look realistic in renders

SADIM_cnc1 · ‎06-16-2019

Hi, this may have been discussed before, but I would find very helpful to have an option to export flat patterns with or without bend lines. At the moment they do show up and are interpreted by our lasers as cut out paths. I reckon this option could be a simple tick box in the preferences such as "sheet metal flat pattern DXF export - hide bend lines" where the default in unchecked kind regards, Remi

Anonymous · ‎06-10-2019

Many of us use fusion to design but then cut using machines like fibre lasers, most of these simply use a dxf file in their proprietary software to cut from. Fusion whilst been able to export a sketch as a dxf or going into cam and creating a tool path is very capable the simplest and by far the easiest way I've found is simply project all your sketches on to a new plane then save that as a new sketch so combining all your sketches on one plane then save that as a dxf, its really quick and easy and works a treat, it would be really good if from fusion when you finish a design you could simply click a button to project all sketches onto a new plane and save as a sketch labelled laser contour for example, then you could simply click one button to create this and then one button to export the dxf, 1000's of users would see this as a fantastic addition I'm sure. At the moment you create components then create sketches for all your design its then a long winded process to export all those sketches as one as a dxf ! what you need to do is combine them all into a new sketch that will update if you alter another sketch within the design.

MattPerez314 · ‎05-29-2019

It would be helpful to be able to create multiple flat patterns in a single component. Designing sheet metal bodies in a single component makes sense from a workflow standpoint and the workaround to get flat patterns after using copy/paste-new is less than ideal. Either allow the use of multiple flat patterns in a component or allow us to copy/paste a sheet metal body into a new component and be able to create a flat pattern. Like a derived component inside a single file. It can be done with copy/paste new but streamlining it would help.

j.wellsQFXLE · ‎05-08-2019

When using tools where multiple selections are required it would more efficient to change inputs with the tab key instead of clicking on the next input box. For instance the Mirror tool requires Objects to be mirrored and a Mirror Line. the Objects input is selected by default, but to switch to the Mirror Line input you must select it with the mouse. Using the tab key would speed up the process. -Jake

bryan5 · ‎04-27-2019

Still missing from sheet metal is Normal cutout. (cut normal to the thickness). You can flatten and cut, but a normal cutout saves a few steps and makes designing quicker and more efficient. Let's get this done.

shawnchambers · ‎04-23-2019

I like the sheetmetal options in Fusion 360. The only issue is that I don't have a metal press. I do have a plasma table and welder though. So if I model something simple as a box in Fusion, the joints are made to be bent. It would be nice if Fusion could treat the project as it usually does, but that the joints are open corner welded joints. No bends. This way if I flatten the project, I can export the 6 sides (dont care if they are connected or not) to cad and plasma cut them out. Then weld them up. This should be relatively easy as you don't have to calculate bend radius, k-factor, etc.

MariusBaard · ‎04-02-2019

When Using Derive and you press OK once parts were selected, Is there no way you can evenly space out the parts instead of placing them on top of each other. Maybe give us the option of the space between parts from 5 to 20mm for instance. Come on, you can do all things....... make it nice to use 🙂

MariusBaard · ‎03-14-2019

I have made a number of sheet metal rules for different materials, but I still need to go and choose the material after I chose the sheet metal rule. So I choose 1.5mm PST as my rule, but when I do I BOM the material default stays metal. The rule should have an option to change the material (click to choose material button) PS: I love this program

Anonymous · ‎03-09-2019

I love the NASTRAN solver and the Sheet Metal Capabilities of Fusion 360 but when is Autodesk going to introduce shell elements. When performing analysis on large sheet metal assemblies we have to use solid elements instead of shell elements which makes computation nearly impossible (elements < 1/3 material thickness). Often times I have to export the models to solidworks and perform the analysis there. Seems like a simple fix to make the program robust. Keep up the good work!!

Anonymous · ‎03-03-2019

I'm working in sheetmetal, and having F360 say "Unfold failed" without any more information is particularly frustrating. Rather than leaving us to guess what needs to be adjusted, just unfold it anyway and mark the conflicts in red. Let us see the problem and take measurements to see how much something has to be moved, rather than a series of guesses to try to guess the clearance needed. Oh, and having the "More info" link on the error dialog come up as "Unfolding failed" isn't exactly what I'd call more info.

Anonymous · ‎03-03-2019

I would like to be able to designate a material as deformable in a joint. For example, adding a 12mm thick foam sealing strip that I can tell F360 is deformable so it will compress to fit in a 10mm space in a sliding joint as an assembly closes.

Anonymous · ‎02-21-2019

Hi could the next upgrade of sheet metal include fold along a sketch line similar to inventor as it’s a very handy tool. It’s also they useful for folding from old legacy 2d geometry. Cheers Lee

frank · ‎02-06-2019

I used to use Inventor and that software had a feature that allowed you to convert an extruded shape to sheet metal. This was so helpful. So often you extrude a shape and then wish you working in sheet metal mode. I would love for Fusion 360 to bring this over from Inventor.

MariusBaard · ‎01-30-2019

Please tell me why the design and drawings want to update if nothing was done to it. I would open a design to export a DXF from a part and then the drawing wants to save this step. then the drawing needs to update, why? This is very time consuming and irritating, as I did not change anything. Now for a single part this is nit so bad, but if you have over 50 parts its pretty dam frustrating. Do you call this a revision? I call it madness..........

crispatta · ‎01-23-2019

For which reason is impossible to work in sheet metal environment when timeline is disabled?

Nikola_Perunmoto · ‎01-02-2019

Bend tables are great to thing to have on drawings of sheet metal flat patterns. Too bad there are only 4 parameters in predefined bend tables - number of the bend, direction, inside angle and radius. It would be great if some other things could be linked and shown in the table, like length of the bend or outside angle. Those are important parameters for every press brake. Or even an option to add rows and columns manually would be useful, to add info related to specific machines or process, like bend corrections, punch/die number etc.

kellings · ‎01-01-2019

Sheet metal in Fusion has been virtually untouched since the initial appearance of sheet metal tools in Fusion 360. It's time these sheet metal tools were updated with some enhanced capability like: Convert a part to a sheet metal part Rip Tool Corner Seam tool Hem tool Bend Tool Lofted Flange tool (press brake initially, formed eventually) These tools have been implemented in Autodesk Inventor for a very long time and Autodesk knows how these tools should function. For Fusion to be a professional design tool, it must include core sheet metal functionality that has been missing for a very very long time now.

jsf025 · ‎12-12-2018

Greetings, This is by no means a top priority improvement to Fusion 360, but it's a little weird that it's not incorporated. Currently, there is no way to move your layers around and organize them. Whatever order you create your layers in is the order they are set to with no option to change. It would be nice to have an option to "send layer to top/bottom" or the ability to click and drag a layer on top or below another in the List UI. The best available solution currently is to copy everything from one sketch, create a new sketch and paste. It's a solution, but not a great one. The problem is it can take a LOT of time and on top of that you lose extra dimension annotations as well as fixed constraints. Please consider adding to an upcoming version of Fusion. Cheers.

Anonymous · ‎11-07-2018

Same way you can hide bend extends in a drawing view, it would be great to be able to hide the bend lines. The reasoning behind this is that I am currently using the sheet metal module for flexible parts that are not going to be permanently bent, but this way I can analyze the behavior when bent, and still get a flat view for manufacturing that doesn't require to be bent.

Anonymous · ‎10-24-2018

It smashes everything together when viewing this from the main forum. Open it, and prepare to be inspired! 😃 Expanding the capabilities of the Align Tool. A simple and super convenient way to do it, add a drop down option in the Align Tool to include a 3 point selection align. 3 Point Alignment Origin Points select 1st point select 2nd point select 3rd point Target Points select 1st point select 2nd point select 3rd point Select 3 points on each of the features, 1 aligns with 1, 2 aligns with 2, 3 aligns with 3. DONE. 8) The mating feature would automatically move and rotate to match the 6 points together. This would be especially useful when mating compound curved surfaces/faces together. Check out the link for the screencast (https://autode.sk/2ywxWw8) to see an example of the issue I'm talking about. I understand there are "work-arounds" for this, but when I think of lining features up, naturally the align tool comes to mind. If I cant use the align tool to align a feature... 8( BLAHHHHH! haha YOU CAN DO IT! 8) THANKS!! 8)

jrod7VEVT · ‎10-19-2018

When using the Press-Pull or Extrude functions and then having to select a sketch it would be nice to be able to select a sketch from the Design History below. Currently can only select the sketch from the "Browser" Menu or selecting directly in the solid.

Anonymous · ‎10-03-2018

Hi everyone, It would be good if in the Flange command, you can add the "Corner edit" operation, so that the folds can be kept open or closed, according to the measures established by the user. Thanks!

Anonymous · ‎09-28-2018

Change the bend allowance per bend to a physical value per bend rather than just have the neutral axis option as bend alowances change according to what forming tools you in production. Much the same as Solidworks does.

crispatta · ‎09-17-2018

Why isn't possible create and handle sheet metal component in direct modeling mode? Will be a "ticket" in the future? Crispatta

esumft · ‎07-25-2018

Hi, I think it would be cool if you could select to keep an operation window (i.e. extrude) open instead of it closing and having to reopen it. I realise there is a shortcut 'Repeat ****' option, but I think it's more useful to keep the window open in certain situations.

calebc01 · ‎07-21-2018

I'd love to see an automated slot and tab creation feature for sheet metal designs. This is an accepted feature for Inventor, but I haven't seen anything similar for Fusion 360.

Anonymous · ‎07-13-2018

When I want to export the dxf of a sheet metal design that has holes with threads i get this mesagge: Error: There was an unexpected problem with exporting the flat pattern as a DXF file. I would like some way to export the file anyway

Anonymous · ‎07-06-2018

Hi Autodesk, thank you for a great program, i have in a long time waited for a program like this, that every none could have afford to. i have wondered if it was possible to inset the feature "lofted flange" in autodesk fusion 360. woudt it be nice if autodesk hade the possiblety to do this.

Anonymous · ‎06-29-2018

Would be nice to have 2 features added to Sheet metal side. 1. Close corners command similar to how solidworks does. You can select corner faces and then pick how you want the corners to overlap or butt up to each other. Now it seems have to use offset face tool on each corner face to close up a corner and it takes awhile and doesn't automatically update if I make changes to metal thickness etc. 2. Offset flange. In addition to inside/ outside/ adjacent, there should be an offset selection to extend the flange out from the current edge. This should also work with the symmetric/ two side edge selection. This would make it easy to extend a narrow section out from a wider edge. Would save having to do a seperate cut command on a longer, wider edge.

Anonymous · ‎06-28-2018

I work with a group of people all using different CAD systems. Many projects involve some bent sheet metal parts. Having the ability to convert a STEP model that was previously a sheet metal part into a sheet metal part in Fusion would be very handy for creating dxf files for cut tables and templates. Currently I have to transfer them to other programs that can accomplish this.

Anonymous · ‎06-19-2018

I think that nesting would be a great addition to Fusion. I'm getting used to Fusion right now and I'd like to keep using Fusion, but I can't really do anything with it since it doesn't have a nesting option. I need this option for our laser that will show up in july.

clay.wahlstedt · ‎06-15-2018

It would be nice to have a specific text that is for plasma, laser and water jet cutting that is a single line and does not cut out the centers of letters and numbers. For example o,p,b,d,R,q, 6,8,9. This would require there to be dashes in the text to connect the centers to the rest of the part. Unless this is already a thing and I have not seen it yet I think it would be a massive help to those who do a lot of laser and plasma cut parts that all need labeling.

hoegge · ‎06-07-2018

If you edit the initial profile used for creating a sheet metal part, the information about the flange is lost too, i.e. offset values and references for subsequent flanges. This can make it impossible to fix a design without starting over which also can break other components in a design: Of course the reference is lost, if the referenced geometry is deleted. My point is, that when you then associate another line instead, it should remember the settings used for the prior, i.e., lenghts /offsets, so that the geometries depending on the second flange are not destroyed. For more details see original post in support forum, where there is an additional screencast too. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-support/sheet-metal-flanges-and-hence-all-subsequent-features-with/m-p/8050834/highlight/false#M28265

hoegge · ‎06-07-2018

When you unfold a sheet metal body: , it would be great if the bend line was also shown / created (as a construction line) like it is in a flat pattern: . It is a very useful line to use as a reference. I know you can make it manually yourself every time, but that is quite a lot of work. I use it to create slots along the bend line to make it easier to bend metal yourself for prototypes. PS: It is a pain in the .... that if you forget to select "Board" when submitting an idea before you write the details, then all the details are wiped and you can start over again after having selected Ideastation. And it is the only board you can select when you submit an idea. Couldn't you ask the community / forum guys to look at that together with sorting screencasts dropdown my name or date. I have asked them before, but nothing really seems to happen in the board development part. Thanks Hoegge

Anonymous · ‎06-06-2018

Generate shortcuts for normal camera angles like front view, right view, isometric, etc, using shortcuts like ctrl 1, ctrl 2 or shift 1, just like Solidworks.

hoegge · ‎06-04-2018

When you create a sheet metal body, where you close an item so they just touch, the ends fuse instead of staying separate. That does not really make sense when modelling with sheet metal. For solids it would. I know the workaround is to just a bit of tolerance, but it should not be necessary. Has been logged with development team as: FUS-40600 but would be interesting to hear other good ideas for same improvement. Also it would be nice if a flange could "shape" automatically after the other parts of a sheet metal it meet just like two flanges made at the same time next to each other does best Hoegge

hoegge · ‎06-01-2018

It would be very cool if it was possible to unfold sheet metal components in animations. (and of course render them - old wish)

Anonymous · ‎06-01-2018

Self explanatory?

Anonymous · ‎05-19-2018

I need to copy a sheet metal body. It is not within a component. Is there a way I can copy the sheet metal body, along with the rules it is connected to? If not, is there a way I can convert the sheet metal body into a model body allowing me the ability to copy the body? I do not want to redesign the body again as it took me a few days to complete and I no longer have a few days due to exams that are coming up. I do not care about the sheet metal abilities, such as flange, being taken away from the body once i convert it into a model.

bryan5 · ‎04-21-2018

One big ticket item missing from sheet metal is Normal cutout. (cut normal to the thickness). Let's get this done.

Anonymous · ‎04-16-2018

Why can't a person edit a sheetmetal rule by right clicking on it - like changing the units on a normal part. AND Why doesn't the rule reflect the same units as selected on the main component e.g. IN vs MM.

MariusBaard · ‎04-13-2018

When you create a flat pattern and want to export it as an DXF, please let it use the file name it comes from. Its not fun to type it out every time, and then you cant remember what the part was you created the flat from. Please please please, this will speed up the process and be very heplfull

MariusBaard · ‎04-09-2018

It would be great to export DXF from drawing, as drawing gets updated once a change is done, so you don't need to go and re export every file separately. We normally do this in Creo, have a page with all the cut files in one, and export that, as a cut file. The only problem would be the max size of a drawing A0, custom size would be first prize. cut file

rezabek.blaz · ‎03-25-2018

Please add support for importing 3D dxf. Not just 2D.

Anonymous · ‎03-21-2018

Hi everyone Been using the sheet metal environment recently, and I must say I am disappointed with what I see as limited functionality for complex parts. I am designing a piece where a flange is angled in multiple directions to the previous flange (upwards, and sideways.) With the flange command, there is no option to angle the faces from side to side, only change the direction up or down. To work around this, I created an extended flange and attempted to trim the extra material with the extrude command. However, upon doing this I cannot then add an additional flange on the cut edge. What I would like to see is either an option to angle the flange direction sideways, or the ability to cut a piece with the extrude command then create an additional flange on that edge. Additionally, creating something similar to the loft command (as in the model environment) would be beneficial as it would give the option to join two flanges while automatically creating bends. Many Thanks Matt

MariusBaard · ‎03-19-2018

It would be great if you don't have to jump around from sheet metal to model to do a pattern. It would be even greater if all gets merged together so you can do model, sheet metal, form, patch, render and animation in one workspace. But I do understand that that would make the menus very complicated like 3Ds Max. But surely you can add pattern to sheet metal work space. Kind regards Marius

Anonymous · ‎03-15-2018

It would be extremely useful if we could convert surfaces created using the offset tool (Patch) to Sheet Metal which we could then create flat patterns of. Currently I am using a work around which requires a number of Steps which I have demonstrated in the video attached. Thanks, Daragh

matthew · ‎03-09-2018

Desperately need corner seam feature. Without this feature really restricts the way you have to model sheet metal parts. lofted flange would also be very useful saving a lot of work arounds at present. Also keyboard shortcuts especially space bar to repeat a command. Best regards Matt

jfeig · ‎03-08-2018

For those who design packaging and storage containers via the sheet metal application, there is no hollow "material" for this in the dropdown list. Corrugated materials for such projects are made from either cardboard or extruded polyethylene.

Anonymous · ‎03-01-2018

Hello I’m Simon I designed my own version of the dr who’s sonic screwdriver and I am wondering if you would make it out of metal if possible. It has 3 buttons in a row, the first one is for to pop out to the middle and second time you press it, it pop out to the top. Two buttons below it makes the difference sound and the last one does the same and makes the light light up. But there’s a longer button on the side of the case of the screwdriver it allows you to do the same thing as the two buttons in the row. The handle is from the 10th doctors and the top of it is the trans temporal sonic screwdriver. Please can you help. I want it to be real image1.jpeg Yours sincerity. I hope I have spelled it right Sent from my iPad

Anonymous · ‎03-01-2018

Hello I’m Simon I designed my own version of the dr who’s sonic screwdriver and I am wondering if you would make it out of metal if possible. It has 3 buttons in a row, the first one is for to pop out to the middle and second time you press it, it pop out to the top. Two buttons below it makes the difference sound and the last one does the same and makes the light light up. But there’s a longer button on the side of the case of the screwdriver it allows you to do the same thing as the two buttons in the row. The handle is from the 10th doctors and the top of it is the trans temporal sonic screwdriver. Please can you help. I want it to be real image1.jpeg Yours sincerity. I hope I have spelled it right Sent from my iPad

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎02-28-2018

Fusion would be better if it had a feature that automatically makes multiple animations, and it allows you to change some things like lighting, Shadow and what kind of animation(exploding view of the object, a 360 animation and so on). I feature should be like the cloud render that fusion already has and personally think this would be a great update to Fusion 360 if this feature is implemented.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎02-21-2018

Is it possible to add a feature that automatically does the dimensioning in the drawing mode? this feature is already in inventor and Autocad. I am not sure if what I said explains what I have in my mind. so if there are any question please ask. This feature will make work so much faster. I hope it is added to fusion fast.

Anonymous · ‎02-16-2018

Make it look like this: https://youtu.be/snAE6vcJqBQ

Anonymous · ‎02-16-2018

Make it look like this: https://youtu.be/04n2NbMgC7Y

Anonymous · ‎02-11-2018

The sheet metal tool is amazing and In addition to sheet metal applications I use it for designing and rendering book covers. . When I put a decal (graphic) on one side of a sheet metal body it shows through to the back side. Although the software allows me to put a separate (different) decal on the back side of the sheet metal body there is images showing through from both directions. Projecting a separate work area is a possible solutions but that interferes wit the ability to fold and unfold the sheet metal,

dbigham · ‎02-07-2018

In sheet-metal drawing it is often required to the tangent between or from and edge to a tangent. Below is an example where the dimensions are associated to the end points of the arc of the bend and not the tangent which is not accurate. I do have to say the sheet-metal functionality has come a long way and has some features that work extremely well and I intend to use it on the next project. Regards, David Bigham

MariusBaard · ‎02-01-2018

when I cut a shape into sheet metal, the edge does not end up tangent, and makes it impossible to add another flange to the end. When you trim sheet metal in Pro E Creo the edge always end up tangent, and you can add more flanges to the newly cut shape. Please fix this bug. Kind regards Marius

MariusBaard · ‎02-01-2018

When I create a sub assembly, I activate the part that will have a sub assembly and then create the sub part inside the main part. When i close the sub assembly there is no way to tell me that there is a sub assembly inside that part. Can you make the sheet metal show a box next to it like other sub assemblies? Kind regards Marius Pic attached of the sub assembly

Anonymous · ‎01-27-2018

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lesterN4P2J · ‎01-23-2018

When you are assembling a spring or spring clip to another component and there needs to be a spring value by over bending fold could this be added. This would function in a flat spring clip type component where the drawing shows a finished angle of fold which would be less in un sprung form as shown in attached image

Anonymous · ‎01-19-2018

This model is very helpful to design a playground.

MariusBaard · ‎01-10-2018

http://a360.co/2Dg1FdT Please add a distance to surface option so that the flange will stay the same as the part when altering the size. I am adding a channel to a frame and would like the flange to go from edge to edge, and not by measuring or entering a distance so that the flange will stay the same length as the frame, so by changing the frame, the flange will update automatically. Maybe this is possible but I don't seem to get the tools to do this, please help Kind regards Marius

Anonymous · ‎12-21-2017

I would like to ad in an idea for unfolding material such as foam sheet, Balsa or Plywood. Many model makers that build wings would love to see this feature since we can then unfold and have a template cut on laser or CNC. What I am wanting to achieve is something that can be cut out of flat 3mm foam sheet for folding into wings as the end result. Generally when I model up a wing for a glider I will use a profile for each end of a half wing, I then loft the end rib profiles to make my solid wing. The wing is tapered slightly on one end, approximately 50% the scale of the first wing profile. I then shell the solid model to 3mm which now gives me a wing that is in its finished state using 3mm foam wrapped around the end profile ribs. However, what I would like to do is turn this outer shell into a sheet metal part and unfold it. This then will give me a pattern for being able to CNC cut the foam sheet so it is ready to be folded to the correct shape. Sketchup option: https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/flatten-faces Solidworks option: https://grabcad.com/tutorials/how-to-flatten-a-curved-surface-in-solidworks Fusion option: Please Hope this clarifies some awesome options that I would love to see in Fusion.

Anonymous · ‎12-13-2017

I am very frustrated with the inability to make a layout of various flat parts on a sheet, program and cut in the cam interface. The best we can do is unfold parts temporarily and save them as a copy. I don't think the K factor is figured properly for this. Also you cannot do any programming on an unfolded part without first exiting the unfold configuration of the part. The same goes for the flat pattern. The software assumes that the only thing one would want to do is send to a laser or something ( I honestly don't know what we are expected to do with our flat patterns, if we cannot save them or utilize them in the cam interface. We do a lot of plastic fabrication and we are constantly using sheet metal design function to create heat bent plastic parts. We then flatten and cut on our cnc routers. There is no good way to get a flat pattern instance of the part that can be layed-out on a sheet and programmed in the cam interface. Why not?

Anonymous · ‎12-13-2017

I am very frustrated with the inability to make a layout of various flat parts on a sheet, program and cut in the cam interface. The best we can do is unfold parts temporarily and save them as a copy. I don't think the K factor is figured properly for this. Also you cannot do any programming on an unfolded part without first exiting the unfold configuration of the part. The same goes for the flat pattern. The software assumes that the only thing one would want to do is send to a laser or something ( I honestly don't know what we are expected to do with our flat patterns, if we cannot save them or utilize them in the cam interface. We do a lot of plastic fabrication and we are constantly using sheet metal design function to create heat bent plastic parts. We then flatten and cut on our cnc routers. There is no good way to get a flat pattern instance of the part that can be layed-out on a sheet and programmed in the cam interface. Why not?

pavmed · ‎12-11-2017

Idea: add separate feature or special Flange behavior for 180 degrees flange bend Purpose: to make injury-safe edges Currently it takes two separate operations: 90 degrees bend with some unknown height, plus one more 90 degrees bend with needed height First flange height is unpredicable - I have to put it unreasonably large and then edit feature to find minimum value when second bend still valid. Ex. in my case it's 2.1 mm for 1 mm metal. Or one have to make it 179 degrees with Adjacent bend position and unpredictably large height. In this example it's 140 mm height but only ~25 mm flange generated.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎12-09-2017

Fusion would be better if it had a feature that automatically makes multiple animations, and it allows you to change somethings like lighting, Shadow and what kind of animation(exploding view of the object, a 360 animation and so on). I feature should be like the cloud render that fusion already has and personally think this would be a great update to Fusion 360 if this feature is implemented.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎12-06-2017

I think fusion should have a feature that allows it to auto upload file. It should auto upload files which are in a specific folder. So inside Fusion 360 there should an option where it says auto-upload files, so it keeps uploading any files which are in that folder, so as soon as a new file is dropped into that specific folder it is uploaded to Fusion 360. I am not quite sure if this makes sense so if there are any questions feel to ask. Thank you.

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎12-01-2017

There should be a feature that lets you download multiple files at the same time, by adding a button to do that or have the ability to right-click on the files that the user wants to download and then on the right click menu add a "Download button". Make downloading files easier and faster.

tsharpe · ‎11-26-2017

I'm really liking the sheet metal tools in Fusion 360, but there's a feature that would be easy to include and really useful to those of us who laser cut a lot of sheet metal parts: in the CAM workspace, it would be really useful to be able to quickly add engrave lines along bend lines in order to make it really easy to line the bends up on the break!

Anonymous · ‎11-25-2017

Very happy to see sheet metal in Fusion and the functionality so far is great BUT I have a few, perhaps strange, uses that might be worth looking into developing for sheet metal in the future. One is ROLL... there are many sheet metal projects/ structures that use a rolled form rather than folded. I'm talking about cylinders, cones and the like. There are many programs available to create and deconstruct conical shapes for sheet outside of Fusion but it would be nice to have everything under one roof? Thoughts? In the same vein, there are processes like hydroforming which inflate a material to the finished shape. It would be great to be able to reverse the process, say starting with a final shape and flattening it... perhaps 'flatten' is not the right term here. Compress? Squash? Anyway you get the idea. It's neither unfold nor unroll. I thought I would put this out here and see if anyone else could use features like this? I have work-arounds using various formats to reach my final result but the "all under one roof" idea is really appealing. Thoughts?

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎11-23-2017

when deleting a file/folder Fusion sometimes says that the file is being used in another file. Instead of that prompt, it should tell you saying what files it is being used it and where that file is.

blaisebarrette · ‎11-23-2017

Title says it all! As of now, double clicking with the middle mouse button anywhere does a zoom to fit. It could be useful to have the same effect if you do it in the empty space but if you click on a face, you "Look at" the face. The vue is rotated to get the face normal (parallel) to the screen. I think this could be a useful and probably quite easy to implement for the development team. - Blaise

Anonymous · ‎11-22-2017

A lot of rectangular and round tubes are laser cut these days. Please expand the functionality of sheet metal so that tubes can also be cut properly, with the cuts always perpendicular to the surface of the tube. Here are some screen shots from Creo as an example. Tubes need to be designed the way in which they are actually cut by the machine! Some of my work with laser cut tubes can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGv0WSWzZ7nq7OrLuQgytZA If you watch this you will see why I need this feature. 1. This is the way Fusion360 would make a cut in a tube (correct me if I am wrong, I have barely used it) 2. These are proper sheet metal cuts, with the sketch projected onto either the inner or outer surface, and then cut perpendicular to the surface: I need this functionalilty to make things like this:

Faraj_Monnapillai · ‎11-22-2017

I think Fusion 360 should have the ability to upload files even when fusion is closed. So when you upload files to fusion you should be able to close fusion and the files so are uploading in the background. As a result of this Fusion 360 would take up fewer resources when the user just uploads a file as your pc does have to use recourses to keep fusion fully running.

jenniferlambiase · ‎11-22-2017

Hello it would be great to have a tool to easily stamp sheet metal drawings to create dimples, ridges, and bead roller indents. Thank you!

sarthak0diwan · ‎11-21-2017

it is really frustrating when you need to create a bunch of geometries just to snap to a point on a geometry. Autocad offers really good snapping features. This Improves productivity dramatically. Also, polar snapping is a very convenient tool. I request Team Fusion to please consider adding following features if possible: 1. Snapping to different geometries like midpoint, quadrant of circles, the intersection of lines, etc. 2. "Ortho" feature which restricts cursor in horizontal and vertical directions only. 3. Polar snap which has a set of angles which the cursor snaps to. I've attached pictures to explain the exact feature just in case the reader doesn't understand. Regards!

MaxB4D5Y · ‎11-12-2017

Every time I am working in fusion I experience the issue in the pictures attached. When double clicking a unit filed to over write the contents you get only one side of the decimal point or slash highlighted. please add a sanitizong filter to fusion which makes 0..125 == 0.125 and 0,,125 == 0,125. This is input which currently presents an obnoxious error has clear user intent and has no reason to be presenting the user with an error.

lesterN4P2J · ‎11-12-2017

Would it be possible to add an option to be able to convert a sheet metal body to a component after it has been as you can in non sheet metal parts?

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