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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

Technical requirements

The main requirement is you need to have read and, for the most part, understood all the previous chapters since we won’t explain subjects that we have already dealt with.

Also, as before, we are going to use Sandvik CoroPlus to evaluate the cutting parameters and speed up the process; however, CoroPlus is not strictly needed; for the following pages, you can simply copy the same cutting parameters used in the book.

In this chapter, we will continue with the work we did in Chapter 4; therefore, you should have the same setup ready with the facing operation already set.

We will machine the following features out of a stock with a diameter of 55 mm to complete the example part. In the following diagram, you will find all the dimensions you need to define every geometry detail necessary inside the design environment:

Figure 5.1: Part dimensions

Figure 5.1: Part dimensions

From the diagram, we can spot quite a complex geometry. There is a diameter...