Understanding sheet metal

@asummers509 The bumper you posted the link for would not require the use of the sheet metal part of fusion 360 .

Sheet metal components are used to bend compensate for bend allowances. The picture of that jeep bumper has no bend components, it is several flat pieces tacked together.

@Simsworx is right, using proper file structure is critical when dealing with more then one sheet metal component .

So considering there is no bent parts in the example I could put together a video on how in go about creating it with simple bodies instead.

I’ll try to live stream something in the next couple hours.

here is one I recreated for a customer, he bought a kit online of 3/16 steel but what it out of 1/4 aluminum some I reworked in fusion 360 to adjust the pieces for the aluminums thickness and bend allowances .

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The customer assembled the components.

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