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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

Machining the Second Placement

This chapter directly follows on from the previous one since we will start right where we left off before. Now that we have completed all the milling operations on the first placement (the first setup), we can focus on the second placement by implementing all the remaining operations that will result in the final shape of the part.

What we are about to do is clearly depicted in the following figure:

Figure 10.1: The second placement

Figure 10.1: The second placement

The partially machined stock has now been flipped and installed onto the fixture we mentioned in Chapter 8. With this second placement, we will machine the opposite side of the part. We will now cover every remaining cutting operation one by one.

The goal of this chapter is to introduce more complex operations than those found in Chapter 9, leading you closer and closer to a real case scenario with an ever-increasing level of complexity. We will also try to analyze minor details that may...