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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

Finishing the part using a morphed spiral

As we saw in Figure 10.5, there are several options for finishing, some of which have many traits in common and are sometimes even interchangeable. The idea behind them all is to implement multiple cutting passes very close to each other. The smaller the distance between these cutting passes, the better the overall surface finish.

For our example, I think that one of the best operations we can pick is Morphed Spiral. This command creates an adaptive path all around the part and is capable of machining complex shapes with steep surfaces.

As usual, before launching the command, we have to choose the right tool to use. When finishing a complex 3D contour (like in our example), a ball nose end mill is one of the best possible options. However, this type of tool would be a bad choice for us, given our shape and our three-axis machine. The reason is pretty simple: our part has flat surfaces!

As you can see in the following diagram, on the...