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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

Handling Part Setup for Turning

In this chapter, we will run the Fusion 360 Manufacture environment for the first time and learn how to approach our part setup.

Mastering the Setup panels is not very simple because there are many different tabs, commands, and parameters to understand and tweak. However, the goal of this chapter is to explore in detail (whenever possible) all of the options that the setup process requires us to specify.

Sometimes, we can simply try to copy someone else’s parameters and pray that they fit our needs too. Doing so may lead to a fast start, but it will also leave gaps in our theory. The best mindset to have is to always critically watch every option and wonder why it is set the way it is and what would have happened if it were different.

In the following chapters, we are going to have lots of practical examples to analyze and follow, but for now, let’s try to arrive at those chapters with a solid background understanding; it will...