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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

Nesting Parts for Laser Cutting

This chapter will cover the topic of nesting optimization as deeply as possible without resulting in being too difficult for a novice.

As we are about to discover, learning how to manage nesting for a cutting process is essential to reduce production time and costs. Proper production optimization for large batches is quite a complex topic to cover since it consists of manufacturing processes highly intertwined with logistics and warehouse management. Therefore, we must simplify the subject and will focus on the manufacturing point of view only.

The goal of this chapter is to introduce all the tools that Fusion 360 offers for a proper nesting setup and the other options available. In addition to the basic software included in Fusion 360, we are also about to explore a valuable extension (called Nesting and Fabrication) with several additional features.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Presenting the example model
  • ...