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Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360

By : Fabrizio Cimò
Book Image

Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360

By: Fabrizio Cimò

Overview of this book

Downloading a piece of 3D software and shaping concepts and ideas is quite easy. However, designing feasible and cost-effective real parts from 3D models can be challenging with traditional production technologies, or even additive manufacturing. This book will give you the know-how and skills to develop your projects from ideas to physical products, and overcome these obstacles. In ‘Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360’, you'll discover how to set up a CAM program, pick the right tool, and optimize production. You'll learn the pros and cons of different production technologies, including turning, milling, laser cutting, and 3D printing, and understand how to choose the best option based on your needs. You’ll also explore the important computer-aided manufacturing tools that Fusion 360 offers through the use of examples and best practices. By the end of this book, you’ll understand the potential issues and drawbacks of different design components and apply workarounds to avoid design flaws.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Implementing Turning Operations in Fusion 360
7
Part 2 – Milling with Fusion 360
13
Part 3 – Laser Cutting Using Fusion 360
17
Part 4 – Using Fusion 360 for Additive Manufacturing
22
Part 5 – Testing Our Knowledge

Implementing Our First Milling Operations

In this chapter, we will implement all the cutting operations to complete the first stock placement for our example part. We won’t jump directly to complex 3D operations (which will be covered in Chapter 10) but rather, we will start from the most common 2D milling strategies of face milling and pocket milling.

We will learn how to set up the main 2D milling operations and how to calculate the cutting parameters using CoroPlus. While doing this, we will try to have a critical point of view on the proposed solution, learning how to optimize the machining time and reducing the number of tool changes in our CAM program.

Not only we will learn how to set up milling operations using an online calculator, but we will also calculate the cutting parameters by ourselves (step by step), using the equations introduced in Chapter 6.

The overall goal of this chapter is to get you used to the milling environment of Fusion 360 before moving...