Sheet Metal - Cut function

[RasmusBredal]

As an Inventor Geek i misse some Cut funktion.
Cut Across Bend and Cut Normel.

Need some hove to make 90° cut angle on flatpattern.

Model Insperation - @PaulMunford

[RasmusBredal]

As an Inventor Geek i misse some Cut funktion.
Cut Across Bend and Cut Normel.

Need some hove to make 90° cut angle on flatpattern.

Model Insperation - @PaulMunford

[PaulMunford]

Great job 🙂

Could you split the face and then thicken > cut?

There's a graphic which explains the technique in this article:
http://graitec.co.uk/blog/entry/autodesk-inventor-sheet-metal-flat-pattern-success-every-time

Let us know if that helps!

Paul

[RasmusBredal]

Thanks! 

Thicken wont work on SM surface, but I forund a work around. 

[promm · Accepted solution]

@RasmusBredal,

Please use the Unfold and Fold features to cut across bends.  First unfold, then sketch the geometry that you would like to cut, extrude your cut and then refold your model.  Inventor and other tools have multiple ways to cut across bends.  Based off of user feedback and research, I chose unfold and fold as our solution to cutting across bends.

Cheers,

Mike Prom

[Anonymous]

Hi Mike,

I have been looking for a solution to this as well and while flatten, cut, bend-back will create a normal cut this is severely limiting during design and often ends up creating mis aligned cutouts or improper shaped cut outs.

I hope this is only a temporary solution and Autodesk is working on a way to create these cuts while in the 3D space

Thanks,

Jack

[miechh]

Yeah, it's 2022 meanwhile. I came across this youtube video from Clough42 (https://youtu.be/05s9u9GIaCY?t=443) in which he wants to cut out a profile through a bent part. I was shocked to see what he had to do to accomplish a proper cut (with cuts normal to the sheetmetal faces). I thought he was unfamiliar with a function in F360 and to find out myself that there's still no proper function in Fusion 360 to create those cut-outs I was pretty amazed. I'm also an enthusiastic Inventor user and there we have this nice function "Cut normal" which cuts through a bent part in such way that the profile you cut out goes straight through the bent part without touching the workpiece but with all cutting walls perpendicular to the faces of the sheetmetal part.

This 'workaround' mentioned above (which shockingly dates back to 2017/2018) which describes unfolding, projecting geometry, extrusion cutting the profile again through the part and refolding, is something that Inventor 2017 didn't have anymore, and that's almost six years ago. It's about time the Sheetmetal-team of F360 implements this Cut Normal function. Sorry, don't want to be negative.

[gl_saccardo]

I purchased F360 hoping that this feature would be standard in the paid version, but I'm still looking for alternative solutions.

Autodesk certainly knows how to implement normal cutting, if they don't I think it's by choice.