Mastering Living Hinges in Fusion 360: A Step-by-Step Laser Cutting Tutorial

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🔥 Dive into the world of Autodesk Fusion 360 with this comprehensive tutorial on creating living hinges for laser cutting projects. Join us as we unravel the intricacies of designing parts that interact seamlessly, laying them flat for laser cutting, and ensuring a perfect finish with curved tops and finger joints.
👉 What You'll Learn:
- How to utilize Fusion 360 to design a living hinge suitable for laser cutting.
- Step-by-step instructions on setting up user parameters like material thickness, gap size, and slat thickness.
- Techniques for creating components, sketches, and construction planes for accurate design.
- Tips on using sheet metal rules, flanges, and the importance of symmetry in design.
- Detailed guidance on unfolding, sketching, and creating patterns for precise laser cutting.
- Insights into the Autodesk Fusion 360 interface for both beginners and experienced users.
🚀 Key Highlights:
1. Setting User Parameters: Learn how to add parameters like 'ply,' 'gap,' 'ideal slat thick,' 'hinge height,' and more to customize your design.
2. Sketching and Construction: Master the art of creating and dimensioning sketches, using construction lines, and ensuring perfect symmetry.
3. Sheet Metal Components: Explore how to create and manipulate sheet metal components for your living hinge design.
4. Unfolding and Pattern Creation: Get to grips with unfolding sheet metal and creating rectangular patterns for laser cutting.
5. Finalizing the Design: Understand how to arrange components for manufacturing, set up for laser cutting, and export your design.
📌 Whether you're a hobbyist, student, or professional, this tutorial is tailored to help you enhance your Fusion 360 skills and apply them to your laser cutting projects.
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Bend plywood with a laser cutter and generate toolpaths in fusion 360 to export as a DXF for use on a Glowforge or Epilog or other laser cutter. Living hinges are a great way to use a laser cutter to make stiff or hard materials like plywood or plexi-glass bend without mechanical hinges.
A living hinge makes lots of tiny cuts in the material to allow it to bend around a pre-determined radius. A laser cutter is great at making precise slits and cuts inorder for the living hinge to function properly.
Link to .f3d file - drive.google.com/file/d/1P-yJ...

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@ifixifi 11 ай бұрын

This is possibly the most gem-packed video involving F360 that I've seen ever.

@WhatMakeArt 11 ай бұрын

It's fun to watch the laser cutter cut all the little lines too, some times gets close to 🔥 if the cut isn't planned and distributed across the piece

@Demolishionist 7 ай бұрын

It's great to see alternative methods of getting to the same end result. The last bit can be simplified though if you use the Shaper Origin plugin. With it, you can export faces, sketches, etc. as .svg files that you can then bring into lightburn or other laser software to arrange and set the layers as you require. It's much faster than going through the manufacturing process and illustrator intermediary and gives the same result.

@WhatMakeArt 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the tip with everyone, I will try it out

@NeoQJ 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial, thanks👍👍👍👍

@WhatMakeArt 2 жыл бұрын

Lasers 👍👍

@henrique_percurso 2 жыл бұрын

amazing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 thanks

@WhatMakeArt 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@bigredwatermelon Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial

@WhatMakeArt Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped 🐱

@pixelrabbit261 Жыл бұрын

Nice video. I notice you didn't refer to 'Kerf' at any point. I did notice it was one of the parameters for the laser tool. Does this method compensate for kerf based on the kerf parameter, i.e. will the 3mm tabs be offset by the kerf so there is a tight fit when assembling?

@WhatMakeArt Жыл бұрын

For the living hinge portion, it just assumes that it's cutting on the center line, and then that gap is what it is. For parts that fit together, you can make a tool in Fusion 360 and then make a kerf adjustment. Here is a video showing how to export a DXF with kerf adjustment for laser cutting kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLB2e7CHnKedhIk.html

@thetruthserum2816 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial; Can you share the F3D file, please?

@WhatMakeArt 2 жыл бұрын

Link to .f3d file - drive.google.com/file/d/1P-yJiDd3s0RnKWBS7rxVcX3IafYPNTly/view?usp=sharing

@gearxo458 Жыл бұрын

Can you give me the .f3d file?

@WhatMakeArt Жыл бұрын

Link to the Fusion 360 .f3d file - drive.google.com/file/d/1P-yJiDd3s0RnKWBS7rxVcX3IafYPNTly/view?usp=share_link

@petergrech2582 Жыл бұрын

OMG extremely complicated

@WhatMakeArt Жыл бұрын

But so satisfying once laser cut out

@epischewurststullederverda1483 Жыл бұрын

Nice showing off what you did, but it isn't a tutorial. Without any explanation you don't learn a thing.

@WhatMakeArt Жыл бұрын

This video with the comment shows how to export the toolpath as a DXF This video at this link shows how to model the living hinge in Fusion 360 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNpdZ5eblpvclX0.html Post any questions about it as sometimes the process is finicky