Fusion360 Sheetmetal & Drawing Tutorial 1 - Soft Jaws 

G'day Steve. Fusion360 sheetmetal is fun to play with. I really should use it more often. To be honest, I'm rather rusty with my CAD CAM these days, that's why I've been leaving the tutorials to my good buddy Kevin Ellingson. He's forgotten more than I'll ever know. As for me, I've been hitting the manual drawing and machining very hard over the past year and as the saying goes, "If don't use it, you'll loose it"! I've got a couple more of these tutorials to do. They are for my high school engineering students (16-18yrs old). Most have never used CAD or done any type of drawings before. We are back in lock down again, so it's near impossible to teach CAD over bloody Zoom. Cheers, Aaron.

Thanks buddy. Glad you got something out of the video. Cheers Aaron

G'day Randy. Thanks for watching and following along mate. Yes you are correct. Double clicking the title box will allow you to do that. I will show that in the next tutorial. I make the students feel the pain first LOL. These tutorials are for my high school engineering students. We are in Lock-down again and it's near impossible to teach CAD over Zoom. Cheers, Aaron.

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering Ok, Now I know where you are coming from. Thanks.

G'day Matty. Really appreciate your support mate. Give sheetmetal a go, it's really fun to play with. Cheers, Aaron

Thanks Gil. This is another "Lockdown" tutorial for my high school engineering students. It's an introduction to F360 sheetmetal. As you know all too well, it's very challenging to teach the students via Zoom. Cheers, Aaron.

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering Well done! Can you get F360 to create an answer to the lockdowns?

@@LaserLivestream I really wish it could Gil. I just don’t have the bandwidth for anymore lockdowns 🤦‍♂️

G'day Paul. Thank you for your kind words. Hopefully my high school engineering kids feel the same way. Nearly impossible to teach CAD over a Zoom session. This way they can learn at their own pace (pause, rewind, play etc.). Trust you're well? Cheers, Aaron.

Hi Craig. Apologies for the late reply. I usually get the high school kids to measure & mark this out manually. For example, I provide them with 1 @ 100 x 120mm piece of aluminium. They cut this into two pieces of 100x60mm. They manually scribe their centre line and add corner radius marks. After filing the corner radius the students place it in the panbrake and fold to 90 degrees.

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering No worries on the reply time. You mentioned here that K-Factor value is a function of the pan brake bending radius. Is this true? I guess I need to learn about next. Thanks for the reply.

@@CraigHollabaugh Hi Craig. Yes K-factor is a real thing. I was at a large sheet metal manufacturing the other day. Their machines take a 3D model file and automatically calculate the development and K factor bend radius etc…

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering I understand what K-factor is (a thickness ratio that defines the compression/expansion layer). I don't understand how its set when using a box and pan brake instead of a press brake. My pan brake has sharp finger tips which comes into account as well.

@@CraigHollabaugh hi Craig. On some manual and hydraulic machines you can adjust that via a manual setting. Sorry if I’m not providing you with the correct answer. I did find this article very helpful though fractory.com/sheet-metal-bending/

In CAD for mechanical engineering solid modelling we always draw at 1:1 ratio. The orthogonal/ working drawing can be scaled by right clicking on the drawing to edit properties and change the scale. 👍🍺

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering Cheers currently working as a press brake setter/Operator looking to get into milling or CAD thanks for the help. 😁

G'day Paul. This tutorial is predominately for my high school engineering students. We are still in lockdown over here in Melbourne and it's impossible to teach them CAD (some have never used it before) via remote learning over Zoom. This way they can play, pause, rewind and do it at their own self pace. Cheers, Aaron.

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering Well I sure learned something! :-)

Thanks for watching 👍

Hello Marco. Thank you for watching and commenting. I no longer own the intellectual property to that document, and sharing it would breach my contractual agreement with the company. Send me an email and I can send you some other stuff if you like. My email is located in the about section of my channel page. Trust you understand. Aaron.

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering hi thanks for you quick answer. Of Course I can understand that you can not share it. I will send you a mail. Thx

Yes, you make a valid point. This is a little project that I used do with the high school engineering students. K factor is hard to determine with manual panbrakes as settings can change (especially in educational institutions). Interesting to note, most modern CNC folders now accept the solid CAD model and work everything out for you. Technology has come a long way. Thanks for watching.

The development dimensions of 100x60 are correct. The 3D model is slightly out, as the "K-Factor" which is based on the material properties and panbrake being used etc.. would need to be specified to make it 100% correct. Regards, Aaron.

All good Mike. I think you know most of this stuff anyway. They are basic tutorials created for my high school students. Cheers 👍, Aaron.

@@DCT_Aaron_Engineering I've been a bit surprised at a couple of the things I didn't know. :)

Hey, I assume you mean the line for where the panbrake will fold in? I would usually just insert a centreline.