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Suggested order
Outer flanges first, bends in the same direction grouped, short bends before long ones. Move a step up or down, or straight to its new place; the plan is checked again at once.
Autodesk Fusion add-in · Windows and macOS
Sheet Metal & Press BrakePress Brake Bend Order, Back-Gauge & Setup Sheets for Autodesk Fusion (Fusion 360)
From the Fusion flat pattern
to the press brake.
Pick a sheet-metal part and get the bend order, the punch and die, the back-gauge X and the handling for every hit, checked against your own tools in 2D and 3D. The operator gets one bend sheet; the setter no longer works out the sequence at the machine or finds a collision in a test bend.
A 2 mm control-box enclosure modelled in Fusion and the bend sheet the add-in wrote for it.
Key features
What Sheet Metal & Press Brake does
1.The bend sheet for the operator
The setup, a 3D picture of the part, the flat with every bend numbered and the bend table with back-gauge X, gauge and handling for each hit, with a bend-program CSV and a layered flat DXF.
See how →
2.Collisions found in Fusion
Each step is checked against your punch, die, upper beam and back gauge with the earlier bends formed, and can be folded in 3D: a tool the part meets turns red.
See how →
3.Auto tools + order
One button tries your punches and dies, both back-gauge sides and other bend orders, prefers one punch and die for the whole part, and folds the plan it keeps in 3D.
See how →
4.Hems, joggles and large radii
A hem pre-bent and flattened, also in one spring hemming die, a joggle in one offset hit, and a radius too large for the die bump bent in small hits.
See how →
5.Catalogue tools and your own
Starter tools with their makers' outlines, 1,440 more punches and dies in the catalogue, your own from a sketch or a DXF, and sectioned sets as your shop owns them.
See how →
6.Forms and Tab and Slot
Louvers, knockouts, beads and other forms placed from a corner of the face and checked against the tool makers' limits, and tabs and slots that locate the parts.
See how →Videos
Every bend checked in 3D, then one sheet for the brake
The whole add-in on the control-box enclosure, a 15-bend part with its order set by hand and all its steps played, then bump bending, spring-die hems and the library.
Fusion 360 Press Brake Simulation – Check Every Bend in 3D
Tab and Slot and forms on a sheet-metal enclosure, then Bend Sheet: the bend order and back gauge, every step played in 3D with a collision in red, the bend sheet PDF, the press-brake library, a test-bend calibration and Manufacturing Export.
Fusion 360 Press Brake Simulation – Pre-Bends and Bend Order for a 15-Bend Part
A hat channel with a V bead and an offset: the bend order set by hand, bends taken to 45° first and finished in the die, every step watched in 3D with the collisions in red, and the bend sheet PDF.
Press Brake Bend Sequence Simulation in Fusion 360 – All 17 Steps in 3D
The same hat channel, all 17 steps played in 3D with one click: each stroke, then the part flipped over or turned end for end for the next step.
Fusion 360 Press Brake Simulation – Bump Bending, Hems and Spring Dies
Calibrate from a test bend and the Press Brake Library, then Bend Sheet: an R40 radius bump bent in 8 hits from the far end toward the back gauge, and two hems pre-bent and closed in a WILA spring hemming die.
What it does
Fusion draws the flat. The brake needs more than that.
Fusion unfolds the part, draws its bend lines and exports the flat. Which bend comes first, where the back gauge goes for each hit, how the part is turned and whether a flange hits the punch are left to the shop: that is what this add-in plans.
Switching CAD or planning bends at the machine
Coming from Inventor Bend Order, SolidWorks Sheet Metal, or manual press-brake setup?
| Sheet-Metal & Press-Brake Task | Native Fusion by hand | Sheet Metal & Press Brake Add-in |
|---|---|---|
| Bend sequence (bend order) & part handling | Native Fusion by handBend callouts numbered by hand on a drawing; no flip or turn plan | With the add-inAuto tools + order searches your library for a clear sequence and writes the handling of every hit |
| Backgauge X (back-gauge stop) | Native Fusion by handWorked out at the machine or in offline CAM | With the add-inBack-gauge X and gauge reference (edge or formed flange) for every step |
| Punch, die, upper beam & box-wall collisions | Native Fusion by handFound at the brake, in a test bend | With the add-inA section check on every plan and the real part refolded in 3D through the stroke |
| Checks before the first hit | Native Fusion by handA flange that falls into the die or a punch angle too sharp, found at the brake | With the add-inFlange length, tool angles, force against tool and machine ratings, holes and forms near bends, on the bend sheet |
| Hems, joggles & large radii | Native Fusion by handHits, tools and force worked out by the setter | With the add-inEach hit planned with its tools, X and force: hems (spring hemming dies too), offset hits, bumps, bottoming and coining |
| Tool data & sectioned stations | Native Fusion by handEach punch and die looked up and typed in; pieces picked at the machine | With the add-inA starter library from the makers’ catalogues with their outlines, and a station of your sectioned set for every step |
| K-factor & bend deduction | Native Fusion by handAn assumed K-factor and radius typed into Sheet Metal Rules | With the add-inThe rule of the die and punch you bend with, or of your own test bend |
| Forms, punch press & Tab and Slot | Native Fusion by handEach form and slot modelled by hand; up or down and the hit order decided at the turret | With the add-inForms checked against the tool makers’ limits, a punch-press plan checked hit by hit, the forms’ punch and die as STEP, and Tab and Slot joints |
One real part, from start to finish
Modelled with Fusion's own sheet-metal tools: every picture of the enclosure on this page comes from this one design and the add-in's commands.
- Part
- Control-box enclosure, 420 × 300 × 90 mm
- Material
- S235JR steel, 2 mm
- Corners
- Closed: the long walls cover the end walls
- Bends
- 6, including two 15 mm return flanges
- Forms
- 9 louvers opening downwards, 3 cable knockouts
- Joints
- 8 tabs hold the mounting plate, 8 lock the corners
- Brake and tools
- TRUMPF TruBend 7036; WILA V16 die and 163 mm gooseneck punch
Collision check
Collisions found in Fusion, in 2D and in 3D
Every step is checked against the outlines of your punch, die, upper beam and back gauge, with the earlier bends formed: a flange that swings into the punch, a return over the end of the punch, a wall that leaves it no room.
Section check of every step
The section across each bend is swept through the stroke with the part folded as it is at that step, end walls and returns included. It runs on every plan; a tool that only marks the sheet's skin is a warning.
3D view of a step
Any step of the plan drawn beside your model, at any point of the stroke.
3D check of the plan
One button refolds the real part from its flat and checks every step of the plan in 3D, and the way the part comes out past the stations next to it.
Any step in 3D, every step checked in 3D
Show the selected step in 3D draws the step beside your model; drag Motion through the stroke, or Play all steps to watch the whole plan, the part flipped or turned between steps. A tool the part cuts into turns red.
Check all steps in 3D refolds the real part from its flat and tests every step against the punch, die and beam as solids, every 5° and through the withdrawal, then tries a lift, a pull and a tilt to take the part out past the neighbouring stations and the machine. Contacts go on the bend sheet and in the CSV; a way out it could not verify is marked as not checked, never as clear.
A door whose returns lie over the ends of the punch
A 400 × 832 mm door in 1.5 mm steel, short walls bent first: their returns then stand over the ends of the 835 mm punch, which lands on them at the start of steps 5 and 6. The section through the middle of the bend cannot see it; the 3D check does. Auto tools + order bends the returns last, between the walls, on a 395 mm AMADA station: clear in 2D and 3D.
A narrow U channel: the first flange meets the punch in the second bend
After the first bend the 121 mm flange stands higher than the 104.5 mm gooseneck punch, and the section check finds it meeting the punch 29° into the second bend, drawn red on the bend sheet.
One button
Auto tools + order
- Tries your punches and dies, only the ones you have when you mark them, both back-gauge sides and other bend orders, and keeps one punch and die for the whole part when the checks allow it.
- Checks every plan with the whole part folded as it is at each step, then folds the plan it keeps in 3D, taking the part out past the stations next to it as well.
- Usually seconds: 31 plans in 2.1 s for the lipped C channel under Example parts; a hard part stops after 40 s with the best plan it found.
It keeps your pre-bends and the steps up to the one you mark Keep for Auto. When full bends leave a problem, it tries one or two pre-bends of its own, at a half, a third or two thirds of the turn, and lists the ones it adds; when no plan clears every step, it keeps the order that went furthest and marks the steps left for you.
Bend Sheet
Plan the part in Fusion, hand one sheet to the operator
Run Bend Sheet on one part or on every sheet-metal part of the design: it reads the flat pattern and the setup saved with each part, and lists every step with its back-gauge X, gauge reference and handling. Set the order by hand or with Auto tools + order, then write the files.
What the operator gets
- ✓The setup: machine, material, thickness, die and punch.
- ✓A 3D picture of the part as Fusion shows it, and the flat pattern with every bend numbered, UP in blue and DOWN in red.
- ✓The bend table in order: angle, inside radius, flanges, back-gauge X, what the part rests against, the handling and the force; pre-bends, hems, bumps and offset hits marked.
- ✓The tools and station of every step, the checks, and a side view of every step.
- ✓A bend-program CSV, and a flat DXF with CUT, BEND, ETCH and NOTES layers.
Control-box enclosure, 6 bends
On the TRUMPF TruBend 7036 with WILA tools: Auto tools + order bends the returns first and puts the 163 mm gooseneck on every step, all six clear in 2D and 3D.
Hat channel with a V bead and an offset, 15 bends
The part of the second video: B5, B6 and B9 pre-bent to 45° and finished in the die, 18 steps, six of them with another tool from the catalogue; every step clear in the section check.
A side view of every step
The part on the die before each bend, with the earlier bends formed and the back gauge on the right.
The punch and die station of every step
Enter a punch or die as the sectioned set your shop owns, horns included. For each step Bend Sheet builds the station as press-brake controllers do: over the bend line, clear of the bends already formed, with the fewest pieces and a horn at each end that faces a wall. In the tray below, the 410.6 mm bend line between the end walls gets 100L + 150 + 20 + 40 + 100R.
How a part is planned
Order, back gauge and handling
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Back-gauge X
Measured for every step on the side view of the part with the earlier bends formed: from the edge or from a formed flange, on the side with the shorter X that fits the back-gauge range. Turn front to back puts the other side to the gauge.
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Handling
Between steps the sheet says whether to flip the part over, turn it end for end or rotate it, with the angle and direction.
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Pre-bends
A bend the tools would meet at its full angle, such as a short offset or a bead between two walls, is made in two hits: bent to 45° while the part is open, then finished in the die, without the back gauge, after the bends next to it.
Hems, offsets and large radii
Two hits for a hem, one for a joggle, many for a radius
Each hit is a step with its tools, X, force and checks, shown in the 3D view. The pictures: 1.5 mm steel, with machines and tools of the starter library.
Hems: a pre-bend, then flattened
A bend past 170° is a hem: a pre-bend to 150°, then the flattening. The suggested order and Auto add the pre-bend and pick the tools; open hems are pressed to their gap and teardrops on their loop, and later bends gauge on the outside of the fold.
A spring hemming die makes both hits without a tool change: the pre-bend in its V with the die pressed shut, then the hem pushed into its jaw and pressed by the pad. The starter library has WILA's DDU dies for 1, 1.5 and 2 mm sheet.
Bump bending for a large radius
A radius too large for the die is made in small hits: set Bumps under Selected step. The hits lie at equal pitch across the bend's allowance, each a step with its own X, and the flat stays the same. They run from the end farthest from the back gauge toward it, so the sheet behind the punch stays flat on the fingers; Play all steps slides the part over to the next X between hits, and Turn front to back turns the whole series.
Offset hits: a joggle in one stroke
An offset punch and die make both bends of a joggle in one stroke: select the first bend and click Make an offset hit. X is measured from the tool axis, the force is three times an air bend's, and the tools are drawn to the part's offset. Add your offset punch and die to the library: a name, tooling system and height are enough.
Bottoming and coining
Bend method under Selected step: bottoming at 5 times the force or more, coining at 10 times or more. The force check and Auto take that force, and the checks say when the die's angle, the V or the punch radius does not suit.
Checks
Problems found before the first hit
Besides collisions, every step is checked against the setup. Errors and warnings go on the sheet with the step and the bend; a check that could not run is listed as not checked.
Flange too short
A flange shorter than 0.7 × the die opening falls into the die. Checked on both sides of every step, with the earlier bends formed. In air bending, a flange that loses its support on a shoulder of the V die during the stroke, overbend included, is a CHECK naming the side and the angle.
Angle, force and machine
A bend sharper than the die or punch angle needs acute tools: the check names the machine's tools that make it, and the 3D view stops the sheet where the tool does, in red. Force per metre is checked against the die and punch ratings, the total against the machine; the part length against the bed and X against the back-gauge range.
Holes and radius
A hole or cut-out closer to a bend line than 2.5 × thickness + radius is flagged, and so is an inside radius below the material minimum for that thickness.
Flat against the brake
When the flat uses another K-factor or radius than the die and punch give, the sheet says so and OK offers their bend rule.
Forms near a bend
A form in a bend zone is an error; one closer than 3 t + R to where a bend starts is a warning. Each form rides on its flange through the section check.
Sectioned and horn ratings
A station made of pieces, or with a horn, is checked against the lower ratings the makers publish for them.
Bend rules and test bends
A flat pattern that matches your brake
A flat is only right when its bend allowance matches the tooling that bends it: the radius and K-factor come from the die you bend with, or from your own test bend.
Apply Bend Rule
The inside radius follows the die opening (or a larger punch radius) and the material, the K-factor DIN 6935. Apply Bend Rule shows the bend allowance, bend deduction, minimum flange and force, then makes a Fusion sheet-metal rule named after the setup, such as S235 2 mm V16, the part's active rule. Bend Sheet offers the same rule when the part has another.
Calibrate from Test Bend
Bend one strip and measure its flat length, outside legs and angle: the add-in stores the real bend deduction and K-factor for that material, thickness, die and punch, and that setup uses them from then on.
Press Brake Library
Tooling data from real catalogues, every tool with its outline
Published values, each with its source, so a first bend sheet needs no typing; what a maker does not publish is left empty, never guessed.
- ✓8 machines from TRUMPF, Bystronic, Amada, Durma, SafanDarley, Langmuir and Harsle, each with its clamp, beam and back-gauge finger.
- ✓38 punches and 90 dies from AMADA, Wilson Tool, Langmuir, WILA and UKB, WILA's DDU spring hemming dies among them, each with an outline, most from the makers' own drawings.
- ✓Sectioned sets as AMADA, WILA, Wilson Tool and Langmuir sell them, to edit to the pieces your shop owns.
- ✓23 materials with tensile strength and minimum bending radius by thickness (EN, ASTM, SSAB and Outokumpu data).
- ✓1,440 more punches and dies and 419 press brakes in the catalogue (Durma, TRUMPF, Bystronic, AMADA, SafanDarley, LVD, HACO, Baykal, Prima Power): find one by size, style or part number and tick it to add it.
- ✓Every value where it belongs: a machine's values on a drawing of the press brake, a tool's on its outline with its sizes, what each one is used for in its tooltip.
- ✓The tools you have: tick them once, and each machine's tool lists and Auto use only those that fit it.
- ✓Your own tools from a Fusion sketch, a DXF drawing or a few values: an outline fills in what it shows (a punch's height, tip angle and radius, a die's V, angle and shoulder radius), and the form asks only for what the tool type needs. Import and export the library as JSON.
- ✓Updates: new starter tools arrive by themselves; Restore the starter entries keeps your own entries and ticks.
Forms
Louvers, knockouts and beads, placed on the sheet
Louvers, lances, dimples, embosses, bridges, knockouts, extruded holes, beads and gussets, made on a sheet face from presets or your own tools. Louvers, bridges and lances are the sheet itself, formed, with their lanced edges open.
Placed with a preview, kept with a record
- ✓Click the face: the form is placed from the nearest corner, with X and Y to type or drag, from your shop's tools or your own sizes.
- ✓One form, a row, a grid, a circle, or a sketched region filled with louvers around holes and keep-outs.
- ✓A preview of every form before it is made, and Show the forming tool with its punch and die closing on the sheet.
- ✓Select a form to move, resize, re-pattern or delete it: each keeps its tool, position and checks.
Made the way shops make them
- ✓Louvers with closed or open ends, in one hit, progressively for any length, or in a press-brake die.
- ✓Knockouts by NEMA trade size, the ties and cut gap filled in.
- ✓Extruded holes for threads, sized from Mate's table for the tap.
- ✓Beads in one hit, nibbled or rolled along a sketch path, or pressed by a press-brake rib die.
- ✓Gussets across a bend, a body of their own, so the flat stays as it is.
Checked against the tool makers' limits as you edit
The Checks box shows what Mate, AMADA, Conic, TRUMPF, Wilson Tool, NEMA and Protocase publish for the form while you place it: height against thickness, angles, pre-holes and ties, and the distance to edges, other forms and bends. They are warnings, kept with the form and measured again by Audit Forms.
Your shop's forming tools, each drawn with its sizes
Forming Tool Library keeps the tools your shop owns: a form type with its sizes, the tool code, rotation and side, and the evidence it is qualified by. Create Form lists the ones of the form type that fit the sheet.
- ✓Each tool drawn in section and from above: point at a size and its value lights up, and the other way round.
- ✓Vendor specified or shop qualified: a tool changed after its evidence was recorded says so, and its forms are marked as not qualified.
- ✓Ten reference tools to start from; import and export the library as JSON.
Punch press
From the forms to the turret
Manufacturing Export turns the forms into a plan for the turret: the blank as loaded, each form up or down, the hit order (cuts, forms up, forms down) and auto-index stations, in a handoff PDF, a CUT/FORM DXF, an SVG and the Punch Map.
A shop plan for the punch press
- ✓Load the blank on the face you choose, or Auto, which puts most forms up.
- ✓Tooling that is not qualified for production is a warning, marked in every file.
- ✓A louver or bead made in a press-brake die comes after the punch-press hits.
The punch-press job, checked hit by hit
The stripper holds the sheet on the die at every hit, so a later hit can press a form flat. Manufacturing Export checks the job in hit order and lists what it finds in the handoff PDF, the SVG and the Punch Map, as warnings.
- ✓A station for every tool: the smallest that takes it, on a thick turret or with TRUMPF tool sizes.
- ✓Forms under a later hit, and forms in the clamps' dead zone.
- ✓Avoid crushing, the default, makes a hit before the form its tool would land on, where such an order exists.
- ✓Show the job in 3D steps through the hits beside the model.
The punch and die of every form, as STEP solids
For a stamping die or a turret tool of your own, Manufacturing Export writes the punch and die of the forms as STEP solids at the bottom of the stroke, and opens them in a new Fusion design.
- ✓One set per tool: each tool once, its punch and die centred on the form.
- ✓One set per face: every form of a flat face in its place, an upper and a lower block in the blank's datum.
- ✓Beads along a path and gussets have no one-hit tool and are left out; holders and springs are yours to add.
Tab and Slot
Parts that locate themselves before welding
Tab and Slot adds locating tabs to the edge of one sheet and cuts matching slots, with clearance, in the sheet it meets at 90°, by count or by pitch, with a preview. Each joint can be edited at any time, also after forms; the slots stay in the flat pattern and the DXF.
Example parts
Parts where the order and the punch decide
Two more parts, each checked in the order its bends were drawn and with Auto tools + order, on an example 40-tonne brake. Under each: its flat and the step where the punch matters, from its own bend sheet.
Lipped C channel
S235JR steel, 2 mm · 800 mm long · 4 bends
In the order drawn
With the UKB 11.151 punch the dialog started with, the third bend swings the flange and its lip into the punch and the beam at 82°; with that punch no bend order clears the part.
Auto tools + order
Auto changes to the AMADA 604 and its V16 die and bends both lips first: 31 plans in 2.1 s, every step clear in 3D.
Bend sheet (PDF)
Z section with lips
S235JR steel, 2 mm · 800 mm long · 4 bends, two up and two down
In the order drawn
With the top lip bent last, the formed part meets the upper beam 2° into that bend.
Auto tools + order
The top lip first, the part flipped over between the lips and the web bends, all with the UKB 11.151: 4 plans in 1.3 s, clear in 3D.
Bend sheet (PDF)Ten commands
In the Sheet Metal tab, panel Press Brake
The most used commands sit on the ribbon; the panel menu holds all ten.
Bend Sheet
Bend order, tools, back-gauge X and checks for every hit, the 3D view, and the bend sheet PDF, CSV and DXF.
Apply Bend Rule
The radius and K-factor of your die and punch as a Fusion sheet-metal rule.
Calibrate from Test Bend
Bend deduction and K-factor from one measured test strip.
Press Brake Library
Your machines, tools, materials and calibrations, and the catalogue.
Create Form
Forms on a sheet face, checked against the tool makers’ limits; it edits them too.
Forming Tool Library
Your shop’s own forming tools, each drawn in section with its sizes and evidence.
Tab and Slot
Locating tabs and slots where two walls meet at 90°.
Manufacturing Export
Punch Map, punch-press plan and checks, flat DXF, and the forms’ punch and die as STEP.
Audit Forms
Checks the saved forms before you release the part.
About Sheet Metal and Press Brake
Help, version, license status and support.
Sheet Metal & Press Brake · Windows and macOS
Plan your next part for the brake
US$89/year or US$12/month per user, with a 3-day trial. Subscribe on the Autodesk App Store (a Windows listing that installs the add-in for you; its subscriptions need PayPal) or by card through Lemon Squeezy with the email of your Autodesk account. Either one licenses that account for the Windows and the macOS build, and both builds also download below with the same email.
Contact supportRead the guide first
The user guide covers each command, the library, the checks and the limits.
Download
Download the current build
With a license (a purchase or a license from us), download the newest Windows or macOS build here with the email of your Autodesk account, or from inside the add-in (About › Download latest version). The add-in checks your license when it starts, so the file is only useful with a license.
No license yet? Buy on Autodesk App Store. Then install it with the installation guide.
Latest build
The same add-in runs on Windows and macOS. Pick the machine you will install on.
Checking…
Install, update or uninstall an add-in →
Adding the ZIP by hand? In Scripts and Add-Ins › +, select the folder that contains the .manifest file, not the file: on Windows, the Contents folder inside the .bundle.
Updating or switching versions? Clear Run on Startup for the old add-in, Stop it and close Fusion before replacing files. Restart Fusion before you Run the new version.
Before you start
Sheet Metal & Press Brake FAQ
Does it change the Fusion flat pattern?
No, it reads it. Only the part’s sheet-metal rule (inside radius and K-factor) is ever changed, by Apply Bend Rule or when you accept Bend Sheet’s offer, so that the flat and its DXF match your brake. Undo takes it back.
How does this compare to Inventor Bend Order or offline press-brake CAM?
Inventor numbers the bends on a flat pattern; offline CAM writes controller code on a separate PC. This add-in plans a collision-checked bend order with its tools, back-gauge X and handling inside Fusion, on your model and tooling, and writes a setup sheet PDF, a CSV and a DXF, not controller code. See the comparison table
Which parts can it read?
Fusion sheet-metal parts, one per component, one part or every part of the design. A part without a flat pattern gets one from the largest flat face. Bends up and down at any angle are planned, hems included. See the current limitations
Do I need my own tool data first?
No. The starter library has published values for 8 machines, 38 punches, 90 dies and 23 materials, every punch and die with its outline, so a bend sheet works at once. Add your own tools from the catalogue, a sketch, a DXF or a few values. See the Press Brake Library
Is the collision check a machine simulation?
No. It checks the part against the punch, die, beam and back-gauge outlines in 2D on every plan and in 3D when you run it; springback and tool or machine deflection are not modelled, and a step that could not be checked stays incomplete. Try unusual parts on the machine. See the current limitations
Does it work with inch designs?
Yes. Lengths and the back-gauge X follow the design units, with three decimals in inches. For an inch design, American tooling and ASTM materials are offered first.
What is in the bend-program CSV?
One row per step: part, step, bend, angle, direction, die, punch, back-gauge X, gauge reference, handling, force and the problems found. Type it into the controller or keep it with the job; it is not a program file for a specific CNC controller.
Are the forms native Fusion forming tools?
No. A form is modelled geometry with a saved manufacturing record, checked against the tool makers’ published limits as warnings. The supplied presets are examples until you qualify your own tool. See the form checks
Is there a free trial, and which systems are supported?
There is a 3-day trial that starts the first time you run a protected command while signed in and online; opening About alone does not start it. It runs in Fusion on Windows and macOS. The Autodesk App Store listing is for Windows; a subscription there or by card on this page unlocks both builds, and the macOS build downloads from this page with the email of your Autodesk account.
Supported scope
Current limitations
Check these before you rely on a result.
Section and 3D checks
The section check sees the part as folded flat panels and bends; forms on a wall formed across the bend and bend lines short of the edges are left to Check all steps in 3D. Springback and tool or machine deflection are not simulated. A hem made in one hit and a teardrop are not refolded in 3D, and bottoming and coining change the force, not the motion.
The clamp and back gauge of your machine
Makers rarely publish their back-gauge fingers, and some no clamp: those machines take an equivalent maker's clamp and a typical finger, listed under Assumed. Enter, sketch or import your own where they differ.
A bounded tool search
Auto tools + order has one 40-second budget for searching and checking, 3D included, and keeps the best plan it found; its own pre-bends are a bounded set of trials, not every sequence. With a large library or a hard part it may stop short: finish the steps it marks by hand, or keep only your machine's tools in the library.
One K-factor per part
Each bend radius is read from the flat with the K-factor of the part's rule. Check bends that have their own unfold settings in Fusion.
One part per component
Fusion keeps one flat pattern per component, so Bend Sheet reads one part per component; another sheet-metal body is listed with the steps to give it a component of its own.
Forms and joints in one component
Forms are made on the sheet that owns the flat pattern, with no strain or springback calculated, and the tool makers' limits are published values, not a qualification of your tools. Tab and Slot joins straight 90° edges in one component. The punch-press checks take each tool as a disc of its station, and the exported forming tools are forming shapes, not a die design.
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