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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

Congratulations! We have come to the end of this chapter. I hope that you feel a bit more confident about where and how to look for new tools to use.

Let’s quickly recap what we learned in this chapter. First, we discovered the built-in tool library and how to filter the tools to find what we needed. After, we learned three different ways to add more tools that we may need to machine our part, including how to create a new tool from scratch and how to import third-party libraries and plugins.

This is a beginner-level book, so there is not time enough to increase the level of detail on this subject; instead, I encourage you to dig more into important tool brand websites, where you will find a lot more that we were forced to leave untouched!

If you want to start spinning the chuck, please move on to the next chapter, where we are going to implement turning strategies to machine our first part!