360 LIVE: 3D Creating a cardboard box using Fusion 360's Sheet Metal

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Per live stream chat request, here's a video showing how you can make this design more adaptable using parameters:
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In this LiveStream, Brad showed how you can create packaging materials, such as a cardboard box using Sheet Metal inside of Fusion 360.
Link to "Unfolding the mysteries of Sheet Metal" LiveStream: • Episode 10, Unfolding ...
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[@ron.owensby]

Another Great One. Thanks to all involved in the making of these videos!

[@JohnTheRegis]

Fantastic Tutorial. I'm creating a mailer box for renderings and this has been invaluable - thank you very much. Great features in Fusion 360 I'm sure I'll be using this for more packaging and point of sale projects.

[@Tec_WL]

Professor, I greet you from Peru, thank you for teaching this excellent program.

[@goochy808]

Great tutorial! We’re getting a Glowforge where I work and I can see this getting some use for bespoke packaging of stuff we make. Many thanks 👍🏻

[@mrmkurtz]

Outstanding tutorial!! Learned so much, exactly what I needed, and interesting to watch as well.

[@grandleo81475]

I am a packaging engineer. For someone that does not design packaging for a living, this was very well done. I have tried doing this with fusion a few years ago with very little luck. Its good to see that it can be done now.

[@adskFusion]

Thanks Donnie! That means a great deal coming from an industry pro. Curious how it could have been improved?

[@grandleo81475]

@@adskFusion Very minor things. Like, that box was made out of corrugated not cardboard. Cardboard is what the material is made out of. When it is in a fluted form like that it's corrugated. But that really does not matter. The slots should have been wider. All the way out to the fold. Because when the slot is close to a fold like that because the ends of the slots will rip out. The best part about watching this, is I think this is the future for my industry. You did so well with this because you drawing this in a 3D format. Designers in my industry now have to draw in a flat format and there very few CAD programs that will let you fold that up after it has been drawn in the flat. And all of those programs are very expensive. As much as $800 a month. Yes, you read that right. I make a lot of rebuildable designs. If you ever want to collaborate on making something like this rebuildable let me know. I think it could be very helpful for amateurs wanting to make there own boxes.

[@MarianaGonzalez-kf2em]

Great tutorial! I learned a lot, thank you so much!

[@stevesnead2368]

Great stuff! Had to watch on my phone but it was worth it.

[@spikekent]

Although I'm not likely to use sheet metal, I only do 3D Printing, I found this to be highly informative. Great works guys. Thank you.

[@handmadeisbetter]

Thank you very much for this great tutorial! Here you find everything to get started in working with the sheet metal workspace. I struggeled for hours doing exact this box but this video helped me finishing it. Awesome!

[@adskFusion]

I'm glad you found it useful!

[@ewanrussell9863]

Superb tutorial.. brilliantly presented and I have learned so much..

[@epubguy5901]

Awesome tutorial! I really enjoyed and was able to follow your teaching approach. Many thanks.

[@daniamontero6506]

Me ha encantado la gran ayuda que he recibido por medio de este video para elaborar mi empaque, un excelente video. Muchas gracias!!!

[@charlescooke5879]

Excellent Tutorial thanks Brad

[@andrewk6008]

excellent job, thank you so much for doing this video

[@ae6531]

Great tutorial!! Thanks a lot for all!

[@CurtSlaten]

That was wonderfully useful. Thank you.

[@bastiane215]

Really amazing, thanks for sharing. Your explanation is super easy to understand!

[@adskFusion]

Thanks Bastián. Brad is a fantastic teacher and we're happy to have him!

[@zakaroonetwork777]

Your the best Brad. No Solidworks user ever had created as competent tutorials as you do for Fusion. Because of you Ive been ditching Solidworks in favor of Fusion.

[@juanandrescarri27]

Thankkkkssss!!!! So good!

[@klaudio001]

Thank you Brad! Outstanding presentation

[@adskFusion]

Thanks!

[@TROYOSTRANDER]

Great Video. Thanks. Here are some of my timestamp notes: 42:00 Intersect and join flange 49:30 Unfold specific bends 53:40 T&T using "flip" 54:30 Phone call 🤣 54:35 T&T use section analysis to see inside 57:30 Another mirror magic 58:20 working in unfold workspace

[@steveragan692]

New to fusion and I love it. Great videos and instruction. I recently retired from the corrugated industry. If this is something that might come up from time I would love to help any way I can.

[@IBHoevelbrinks]

Very helpful tutorial, it will help me a lot! Thank you, I'll like your videos very much.

[@marcus.guitarist]

Exciting... I was thinking about doing a box myself but now I can follow this video... thanks!!

[@ernestor.salazar1619]

Love this video

[@oleksandrbovtenko3133]

WOW that was great

[@chrisashdown8814]

Once again a great presentation, with very clear instructions from Brad

[@adskFusion]

We

[@bradtallis8968]

Thank you!

[@ron.owensby]

Yeah, Mr Tallis always explains thing so we all can understand, even me. That's why I rave so much about Brad's videos. I mean no disrespect to everybody else. I certainly admire them all

[@camchennai5043]

your teaching is excellent i understanding very easily ..thank you so much💞💞

[@konstantinpankratz7840]

Great job. Thank you.

[@karlvella7627]

Wow this was really super amazing informative video.... Thanks again for everything and this tutorials are going better and better.... Karl from Malta

[@adskFusion]

Cheers Karl!

[@MrJefferson105]

Thank you for this

[@philipmiller5202]

Very interesting. Thank you

[@Lt_Tim]

I needed to model a box to test how a part would this tutorial made it easy to do. I would have figured out a solution, but it would have taken me ten times as long. Thanks for posting this!

[@ScottDube1]

Another great video Brad! I like Lars's energy but get a lot more learning from you! You are the man!

[@adskFusion]

I appreciate that!

[@YeekyYeeky]

really great tutorial , Thank you

[@florinptr1970]

Cool...almost the best tutorial for creating cardboard box...👏👏👏

[@adskFusion]

Almost? Is there one that's better? I actually saw this one and it was great too! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGbCi4eQlKmHecU Kevin is a great resource for other Fusion 360 content, check out Product Design Online.

[@johnnycardoso1965]

Excelente tutorial. Obrigado por detalhar tão minuciosamente.

[@adskFusion]

Obrigado por assistir!

[@ExMachinaEngineering]

I didn't find this useful... I found it excellent, value-adding, empowering... Wow! Thanks, guys. SO many questions answered in this 1h

[@adskFusion]

LOVE hearing this!

[@joelfrojmowicz]

Amazing video! Thank you.

[@adskFusion]

Thanks Joel!

[@deniselectron9424]

Thanks a lot dude, really

[@BellmtGermiston]

Thanks for a great tutorial, Fusion 360 is an amazing program

[@adskFusion]

Thank you!

[@muratunal9141]

Perfect tutorial. Thank you.

[@adskFusion]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DallyYankees]

Hi there, great tutorial! Very very informative :)

[@adskFusion]

Glad you liked it!

[@forcozy]

잘 보고갑니다~^^

[@torbenpetersen4772]

Thanks

[@montebrown8398]

Great job!!!

[@adskFusion]

Thanks Monte!

[@bradtallis8968]

Thank you!

[@Alientcp]

Oh wow, Software nowadays its too sci-fi too. We can go back in time to modify the past without affecting the future. This is an amazing tutorial. Thanks.

[@clark7831]

brad i love you

[@MrMandarin20]

Круто , спасибо !

[@adskFusion]

Нет проблем!

[@schack]

Very inspirational! I'm gonna laser cut boxes for a ton of stuff! :-)

[@adskFusion]

Laser cutters are so much fun!

[@NicksStuff]

Can you apply your artwork to the flat pattern and render the box with it?

[@DrRecio]

omg I've been doing this in cm hehehe, great tutorial, I am a 3D designer and I am adding fusion 360 to my workflow, I commonly use blender, c4d, houdini

[@helgebertling9939]

Hi, really good session, demonstration and explanation. I just almost finished my *parametrized* box as I do want to feed this into my laser cutter, so I can created my tiny boxex based on INNER space Demand ( Box need to big that size to be able to place something inside fitting exact ) OR on max OUTER-Space available ( the latter if the box needs to fit IN somewhere). But I WOULD LOVE to use your CardBoard appearance. Is that avialable somewhere, please?

[@sagarsangani1831]

Loved the tutorial. @Brad, I understand that there is video content for the Cardboard creation in other Live Stream. Do we have any library for materials that are not default in Fusion 360 currently? Kindly help

[@adskFusion]

I don't believe there is a repository but thats something the forum might be of great help with. You could always start something like this too! That would be awesome!

[@epeleg]

Hi, @35:58 I would have expected the dialog to have the "Standard" tools like with extrude so that you could say "up to this edge" but with a offset of -0.008, so that if you later on change the height of the side walls it would also automatically adjust the front wall. alternatively parameters should have probably been used.

[@bradtallis8968]

@Eyal- Yes, we could have used parameters for this, but I didn't want to over-complicate this design. I have another LiveStream where I show how you can use parameters to drive a sheet metal bracket.

[@user-gz3wn3yh5p]

You refer to how to create cardboard rendering in tips and tricks. I can't find that live stream. Can you help? Very instructive.

[@jaydesigns561]

Can you make a tutorial on how to create irregularly shaped boxes in Fusion or perhaps point me in the right direction? Every tutorial I came across shows how to standard shaped boxes.

[@shingiraichigombe1096]

For some reason the first flange corner is not corresponding to the command but all the bend edge measurements are correct. Am stuck! Any help?

[@sebastianfey8687]

how can you move the camera so smooth?

[@dickdownsify]

Thanks I learnt a lot from this tutorial. Is it possible to animate the unfolding of the box, in the Animation section?

[@adskFusion]

@Richard Downham- Unfortunately, no, not in the Animate Workspace. However, you could capture your screen and just use the Unfold command in Sheet Metal and pick the bends individually to show how they unfold.

[@epeleg]

Hi, @37:57 when you add the second edge, I can see why did the flanges go both the the same side, presumably because the bends are at the same angle to the surface to which those edges belong to. I wander what would happen if you added some other edges... is there some "right hand" rule to help us know which direction they will fold to ? (maybe outside and prependicular to the face the edge belongs to ...)

[@bradtallis8968]

@Eyal- The flange will always fold in the direction of the face that the edge is on. so, if you click on the bottom edge of a part, it will fold down, for example. You can use the "flip" option to have it flip the direction, if needed.

[@iktita]

thankyou

[@adskFusion]

You're welcome!

[@rhinoteksuhail7425]

is it better cutting this board with cnc knife cutter or laser??

[@jpytvid]

👍

[@epeleg]

@47:25 - Its nice that you are able to add material using the flage command but is it wise to do so? what are the benefits? because IMHO at least on the timeline it would make more side to use something else as it would probably be more "readable" later on.

[@bradtallis8968]

@Eyal- You could use other commands such as "Press/Pull" or draw an extra sketch and extrude, but to me, it is faster to just use the flange command. This also gives you the flexibility to use symmetric or two-offset flange which gives you more control with less steps.

[@epeleg]

yet another Q: does fusion actually validate the "fold-ability" of the sheet metal object? I mean in theory you could draw the side inserts of this box smaller (on the Z axis) and "wrap" them with severla loops of the side wall (like a rectangular spiral of sorts) in a way that will not have any collisions but will not be fold-able regardless of the order in which you make the folds. which leads me to another Q: Is there a way to provide an "Order of foldering" to such an object? I am guessing that would be the first part in being able to 1) animate the folding 2) detect such "during the folding collisions".

[@bradtallis8968]

@Eyal- Fusion doesn't check the "manufacturability" of your design. That is up to the designer. However, it does check to see if the body is self-intersecting.

[@jerrylambert9209]

I am having struggles using sheetmetal to create a part, i have a 3d model but it wasnt created in sheetmetal

[@johnnycardoso1965]

Please explain the icon on the bottom navigation bar, on the right side. How was it inserted there?

[@adskFusion]

Its this: apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=8709680419614705263&appLang=en&os=Mac However, it's not really that necessary anymore because many of the functions it does have now been integrated.

[@shreyansbaid289]

Can i get a download link of this box somewhere?

[@adskFusion]

Here you go: www.dropbox.com/s/w97kf6rdm1rz959/Cardboard%20Box.f3d?dl=0

[@chipcago]

Stumped @29:29 Unable to get the mirror operation to detect flanges correctly as features. Specifically, the flanges that are the tabs simply do not mirror. I even split the mirror operation into 3 operations. Fusion360 version: 2.0.7046 I am checking to see if any update distorted this feature added on April 17, 2018 Product Update.

[@adskFusion]

Is it centered properly? Is the order correct? Can you share the file? If so, can you send via sharelink? www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/share-a-public-link-of-your-fusion-360-design/

[@Trevorpn]

How can I remove a redundant custom sheet metal rule from the library? I have not been able to find any information on this anywhere in Autodesk or the internet Thanks in advance Trevor Foster

[@Trevorpn]

I did find how to do it, the problem was the was active in a component

[@adskFusion]

Thanks for the follow up, Trevor! Hope that helps someone else!

[@sinnombre779]

En las nuevas vercion es no deja crear chapas así...

[@daren2973]

Is it possible to use sheet metal workspace to create miter folded plywood parts that can then be machined on the CNC? Here's a miter fold example in Inventor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGKoY6KHorOdrpY

[@abdullahraihanbhuiyan2346]

Mirror is very powerful but often it creates some weird issue. Did anyone face something like that?

[@tralfazy]

Making changes after a mirroring seems to be risky and has led to some really bad mess-ups for me. Sometimes I just do the extra work on the other side and skip the mirroring because of that. Especially on something that's complex. Not even undo will save it sometimes. (this is in July 2022)

[@MICLO25]

hi i have not cardboard material

[@ulaB]

When working with foamboard, you sometimes cut parts of the foam to make 90° bends like it's shown in this video at around 0:30 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6myn4hrfLCGgKs. Can you do folds like that with the sheet metal tools too?

[@adskFusion]

If you're cutting/severing it completely, it would be a new part or body. Otherwise I would just use an extremely tight corner similar to what Brad showed.

[@ulaB]

​@@adskFusion If you look at the example I posted above, part of the foam is removed to be able to do an extremely tight corner with just bending the paper and glueing the foam together. The interesting part would be to have F360 remove the foam as needed on a bend.