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Sheet Metal functionality needs improvement

simonjohnlacey
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Sheet Metal functionality needs improvement

simonjohnlacey
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The sheet metal functionality in Fusion doesn't seem to be up to snuff.  I try and make shapes pretty regularly and would love to know what the flat cut form of the shape is.  This is one of the big draws to the sheet metal functionality.  More often than not when unfolding or creating a flat pattern I get "compute failed" and sometimes the objects just explode.

 

This is just a request to fusion to invest more into the sheet metal functionality.  Its used for more than just electrical boxes :D.

 

Here's the shapeHere's the shape

 

creating a flat pattercreating a flat patter

 

unfolding it :Dunfolding it 😄

 

I am running ver 2.0.10244

 

And here's my hardware all drivers up to date:

 

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19041) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics (16 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32174MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12

GPU: RTX 2060

 

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TheCADWhisperer
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Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

From the images it does not appear that you are following the 4 rules of sheet metal.

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HughesTooling
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Sheet metal expects constant thickness so you need radii on all corners, looks like your model has some sharp corners. You can add small radii and it should work.

HughesTooling_0-1621959710539.png

 

Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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