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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

Understanding support material parameters

In this section, we are going to study the most important parameters related to support material and its shape:

Figure 17.22: Support panel

Figure 17.22: Support panel

Let’s look at the options:

  • Support Extruder: Using this option, we can specify which extruder shall print the support structures. This only applies if our printer has more than one extruder.
  • Support Infill Density: The name is self-explanatory – this parameter is the density of the generated support structures. A higher density means a larger contact area with the part and stronger support.
Figure 17.23: Support density

Figure 17.23: Support density

In the preceding figure, we can see a rather complex part being printed with support structures: on the left, we can see a support density of 15%, while on the right, the density is 50%. As we can guess, the part on the right will greatly benefit from the higher support density for all overhang geometries...