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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 a roughing operation using adaptive clearing

Now that we have machined the top of the stock, it is time to move on to a roughing operation on the complex shape of our part. The goal of this operation is to remove most of the material around it and leave just a tiny bit for the next finishing operation.

Long story short, we have to create something similar to a South American pyramid:

Figure 10.3: Steps on the side of our part

Figure 10.3: Steps on the side of our part

As you can see, there are multiple steps all along the sides of the part. The bigger the steps, the faster this roughing operation will be. However, please remember that a finishing operation is not capable of removing much material; therefore, we should find some sort of sweet spot between optimizing the roughing passes and the finishing passes. For this operation, we will aim for each step to be 2 mm.

Before starting with the command and settings, we should ask ourselves what the best tool to pick is and whether...