Changing Sheet Metal Thickness In Fusion 360

Fusion 360 comes with a default library of sheetmetal rules.

Changing sheet metal thickness in fusion 360.

Sheet metal thickness is typically specified as a gauge rather than a direct measurement as it is presented in fusion 360. The screencast below details this process. Old user interface prior to august 2019 update. A pro version is available if you ever need it which has sheet.

So i opened my machinery handbook and flipped to the gauge table and bend allowance chart. The sheet metal rules in fusion 360 helps control the different sheet metal settings like thickness bend radius and reliefs. Right click on the top component of the design in the browser tree. But judging by the reaction of the fusion 360 community to the announced changes to.

Then i did what any engineer would do jump in head first. Our intention is to provide you a simple way to build your library by providing you with a handful of starter rules you can copy edit and save to your library. Your sheet metal manufacturer or supplier should have a document detailing the availability. The default is steel but you can change it to either one of the other rules or you can.

In the new ui the sheet metal environment is located in the tabs above the icons. Users are unsure how edit the extent of a flange along a particular edge. Properties are the root of how sheet metal designs behave. If sheet metal does not appear there enable parametric modeling mode by capturing design history.

How to edit flange extents in the sheet metal workspace of fusion 360. So to figure out the thickness you want to use for the material it is useful to refer to a chart of sheet metal specifications. There is no option to access the sheet metal tab in the fusion 360 design toolbar. Steel stainless steel and aluminium both in metric and imperial values.

This must be changed within the edit flange dialog box. We re calling these sheet metal rules in fusion 360.