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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 a third-party tool library

Creating tools is nice and cheap, but it can be a bit time-consuming if we need several new tools. Another option is to increase the built-in tool libraries by downloading third-party libraries and importing them inside Fusion 360.

So, how can we do that? First of all, we should enable cloud libraries. You can find the Enable Cloud Libraries option in the General preferences area, under Manufacture. Once found, be sure to tick the box:

Figure 3.12: Manufacture preferences

Figure 3.12: Manufacture preferences

This option will create a bridge between our tool library and our projects.

After this, we can download a new tool library. You can find many libraries online; some of them require a subscription, and some just an account. For the sake of simplicity, we are going to use a sample tool library by nyccnc.com.

Once you have downloaded the attached file, unzip it. There should be a .json file inside the archive. To import it into Fusion 360 libraries...