Bending calculations
- Professionals
- Maximizes shop throughput and drastically reduces scrap metal costs
- Hobbyists
- Saves money by eliminating trial-and-error tube wasting
Tube fabrication, inside Fusion
From bent designs
to straight cutting blanks.
Design, cope, and mark tubes in Fusion. Unbend them into straight cutting blanks with the cut geometry and reference marks preserved.
Unbend your Fusion tube designs into cutting blanks, with copes and reference marks intact.
Fusion add-in · Windows supported
Fusion license purchased separately.
SEE THE ACTUAL OUTPUTFrom bent tube to cutting blankTube Shop / Fusion
Before / Bent tube
After / Straight blank
The same tube, bent and developed. Its identification, bend text, and reference marks stay with the blank.
Explore this workflowSame tube. Copes and reference marks preserved.
Explore the workflowIntroducing
From design to fabrication.Tube Shop, the Fusion 360 add-in for tube fabrication.
Tap a card to see the details.
01
Design
Tubes through the points you measured, built on the radius of the die you own.
Drawn on your die
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.
02
Cope
Select the tubes that meet. Every branch end is trimmed and normalized for the cut.
Sampled, not guessed
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.
03
Bend
L/R/A rows built on the calibrated radius of the die you are putting in the machine.
Built on your die
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.
04
Cut
Parts nest onto your stick; the program posts for the machine you own, pierce points and mark passes included.
More than G-code
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.
See sample files & outputs
Fabrication packet
Cut lists, tube cards and bend instructions.
Developed cutting blanksThe bent tube and its straight blank.
Full-scale wrap templatesJoint layouts and reference marks.
Will it work for my shop?
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.
Side by sideOne pipeline.
One pipeline.
Two very different shops.
Software interface
- Professionals
- 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.
- Hobbyists
- Simple, fast learning curve without requiring an engineering degree
Design integrity
- Professionals
- Delivers repeatable, mathematically precise blueprints for production
- Hobbyists
- Gives the confidence to build a safe, track legal cage or chassis in your own garage
The Fusion 360 add-in
One licence, checked on your own machine. The whole pipeline: copes, bend sheets, wraps, nesting and G-code.
Perpetual$2,500.00
First 12 months maintenance included · then $500/yr, optional
Subscription$149.00/mo
Cancel any time · runs to the end of the paid month · updates included while you subscribe
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
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What shipped, what broke, what changed. Sent when there is something worth sending, not on a schedule — and nothing else. One click to stop.