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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

Importing our chuck

As we already discussed, in order to avoid collisions between our tool and our chuck, it is a good idea to have something that emulates the size of our chuck or our components inside our 3D world. We are about to discover how to simulate chuck placement; however, just before moving forward, I’d like to highlight what I consider a bad type of advertising.

If you have ever watched any advertisement for CAM software, you have probably noticed that alongside the machined part, not only there is a chuck or a tool holder in place, but there are also lots of complex details of the machine. The truth is that all that stuff is there just for marketing purposes!

In order to find possible collisions between the stock and our machine or between the tool and our machine, a set of properly placed boxes is as effective as a super fancy 3D model with all those extra details. However, Fusion 360 provides a pretty big group of work-holding tools, so we may decide to...