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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

At first, we discovered why it is so important to start with a facing operation, then, using Sandvik CoroPlus, we could get all the cutting parameters to implement.

After this introduction, we deeply described all the options for the Facing command. This is very important because, as we are about to discover, there are many other turning and milling strategies that we will implement to machine our part, but they will all look and work in the same way.

Once we completed our first operation, we discovered how to simulate our tool and how to check for errors; since we couldn’t spot any, we moved forward with postprocessing up to the G-code generation.

It is fair to say that all the efforts we spent on these pages on such a simple facing operation will be worth it time and time again.

Now that we’ve got an idea of a typical workflow with CAM operations, we can move forward with more complex machining strategies.

In the next chapter, we will keep machining...