Tube fabrication, inside Fusion
From bent designs
to straight cutting blanks.
Design, cope, and mark your tubes in Fusion. Develop them into straight blanks with the cut and marking geometry carried through, ready for your cutting workflow.
Fusion add-in · Windows supported
Fusion license purchased separately.
01 / As bent
02 / Developed blank
The same tube, bent and developed. Its identification, bend text, and reference marks stay with the blank.
Explore this workflowFor years, we listened to the same complaints echo across the tube fabrication industry — and as users of that software, we were making them too: software that locks you to hardware, setups that take too long, and tools that simply do not understand the realities of the shop floor.
As a husband-and-wife team, we decided to stop talking about the gap and start building the solution. We put in the hard work to design a tube fabrication software that eliminates your daily headaches and make your production easier. We desire to help professionals and hobbyists alike.
Discover intuitive tools built from real shop-floor feedback to get your jobs done faster and more accurately.
Tube Shop, the Fusion 360 add-in for tube fabrication.
Tube Shop by Apex Design is the industry’s most feature-rich tube fabrication software.
It packs more built-in tools than any other platform to supercharge your workshop productivity.
Tubes through the points you measured, built on the radius of the die you own.
Points placed from a datum, tubes built through them or from sketch lines, every bend cornered at the die's calibrated radius. Move a point and the tube rebuilds in place; a leg too short to grip shows in the dialog, not on the floor.
Select the tubes that meet. Every branch end is trimmed and normalized for the cut.
Each branch is copied in memory, boolean-cut against every host it touches, and sampled into 180 bins around its axis. The real tube then takes one square rotary cut.
L/R/A rows built on the calibrated radius of the die you are putting in the machine.
L/R/A rows in feed order on the calibrated centreline radius of the die you are putting in the machine, with the springback you measured on it. The developed blank length comes with them.
Parts nest onto your stick; the program posts for the machine you own, pierce points and mark passes included.
Parts pack onto the stick length you actually buy, with kerf, the chuck zone and the drop modeled. The nest posts for your controller and writes the developed DXF, 1:1 wrap templates and the cut list beside it, pierce points and cycle time known before you load the stick.
One pipeline.
Two very different shops.
| Key benefits | Professionals | Hobbyists |
|---|---|---|
| Bending calculations | Maximizes shop throughput and drastically reduces scrap metal costs | Saves money by eliminating trial-and-error tube wasting |
| Software interface | Straightened tubes developed on your die calibration, exported to .IGS. Cope clocking and wall cut features are tracked through multiple bend planes. Import into TubesT and set your layers. | Simple, fast learning curve without requiring an engineering degree |
| Design integrity | Delivers repeatable, mathematically precise blueprints for production | Gives the confidence to build a safe, track legal cage or chassis in your own garage |
Works inside Fusion
Tube Shop is a Fusion add-in. Your Fusion license is purchased separately from Autodesk.
Windows supported
Windows is the platform we test on and support. The examples here show the real add-in and its outputs.
Check your cutting workflow
Machine and CAM requirements vary. Tell us which machine and software you use so we can help you check the fit.
The Fusion 360 add-in
One licence, checked on your own machine. The whole pipeline: copes, bend sheets, wraps, nesting and G-code.
Refunds: It activates and runs on your machine or you get your money back — 7 days to report it. A change of mind is not a refund. On the subscription the first month is covered the same way; later monthly payments are final, and cancelling stops the next one. Refund policy
Get build updates as they go out
What shipped, what broke, what changed. Sent when there is something worth sending, not on a schedule — and nothing else. One click to stop.