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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

This concludes the chapter and the section on laser-cutting technology. Overall, it has been quite a slim introduction to lasers since there aren’t many options related to laser cutting to play with inside Fusion 360.

However, to recap what we went through here, we first found out why Fusion 360 is not the best solution on the market to implement cutting operations by highlighting most of its weaknesses.

Then we created our first cutting setup using one of the nested layouts we created during Chapter 12. While reviewing the options available for tool creation, we discussed a few important cutting parameters and their underlying importance.

Finally, we implemented the cutting operation itself and discovered the importance of tabs on the parts. Despite not being very detailed, I think this chapter was essential to get closer to the real world and its complexities.

It is now time to move to the next manufacturing technology: 3D printing!