Checking the generated G-code
As you may recall, after setting up all our operations with Fusion 360, we need a postprocessor to generate a file containing instructions that can be read and used by our machine. This set of instructions is called G-code, and every machine may speak a slightly different dialect of G-code.
Note
I would like to highlight the fact that there are hundreds of different postprocessors, each operating with different options and giving different outputs. For this reason, it is impossible to take a deep look at the postprocessing world in the following pages; this would require several books on this subject alone. If you need to understand more about the translation process, I can only suggest you look at the machine documentation or postprocessor developers’ documentation.
First of all, we need to launch the Post Process command, which you can find here:
Figure 4.26: Post Process button
After launching the command...