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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

Getting Started with Laser Cutting

In this chapter, we are going to introduce laser cutting, including its strengths and drawbacks and the potential it can give you.

Fusion 360 has quite a limited set of commands and tools dedicated to laser cutting and is not exactly the best solution when it comes to laser cutting. However, getting a general idea of a new technology is still very important since it will help us to expand our knowledge beyond milling and turning.

Therefore, the goal of this chapter (and the following ones on laser cutting) is to provide several hints about laser cutting. These chapters are not really aimed at industrial production. We will take a discursive approach to the subject, so we won’t be diving too much into parameters or equations.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing lasers
  • How does a laser cut?
  • Reviewing the pros and cons of laser cutting