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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

Summary

Congratulations, we have now finished the section on milling! I’m sure that we had a good time together creating our machining strategies from scratch.

In this chapter, we faced several advanced milling strategies: we used one of the best milling operations that Fusion 360 has to offer, which is Adaptive Clearing, then we found out why it is important to find a sweet spot between roughing passes and finishing passes, and how tweaking retract movements or milling direction can increase productivity.

After that, we took quite a deep dive into thread milling, where we tried to uncover every possible parameter needed for proper machining and we found out how to check whether the selected tool was up to the task.

This was probably the most difficult chapter to understand due to the geometries and the challenges proposed; however, I promise you that the hardest part is now over.

It is now time to leave milling behind and finally move on to a new manufacturing technology...