I am trying to learn the sheet metal functionality of Fusion 360 and the first project am attempt is an a rectangular to round HVAC transition. I modeled the duct as a solid but when I go to use the convert function it say it doesn't know the thickness, I applied the shell command and got the same response.
Before I spend a lot more time trying to figure this out, I am curious if this type of object is capable of being converted to sheet metal?
There may be different ways to do this but I will show you mine. The Screencast shows two procedures, the first if you have a Fusion 360 Subscription and the second if you do not. I assume you only one the bent center piece, the rest are just sheet metal flats. Model is attached.
John Hackney, Retired
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Fusion 360 does not have a method of breaking up a solid model, with multiple components, into individual sheet metal components. You will have to convert them individually yourself. In my video, I did the angle component to demonstrate, you will use the second part of the video where I demonstrated the process for a Personal license. You can use the same method on the other components but you would save a lot of time just creating sheet metal components directly.
The Personal License, unfortunately, does not allow access to the Arrange command which would make quick work of laying out multiple components on one sheet of material for cutting.
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