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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

Implementing Our First Turning Operation

In this chapter, we will practice our first basic facing operation. Through doing this, we will discover how to get all the cutting parameters using the Sandvik CoroPlus plugin and how to import them inside Fusion 360. Plus, we will deeply analyze all the options available in this first Facing command since most of them will occur on other types of machining as well.

After this, we will check how to simulate tool movements to check for collisions or other errors, and finally, we will take a fast look at how to generate G-code.

The goal of this chapter is to lay concrete bases for future setups. As we will discover, the same key concepts and commands are encountered over and over again throughout the MANUFACTURE environment; understanding the main commands and options for a basic feature will give us a solid ground for further developments.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up a facing operation
  • ...