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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

Turning Profile (Finishing)

After we have implemented the first roughing operation, it is a good idea to set a final finishing pass to remove only a tiny bit of material and achieve a good surface quality.

Fusion 360 comes with a handy operation called Turning Profile Finishing, which we can find among all the other turning operations in Figure 5.2:

This is a contouring operation that will generate a toolpath parallel to the part profile. Before launching the command, we should know which type of tool we plan to use and which cutting settings will allow us to have the target surface quality we want.

For this operation, we can still use the same tool and shank used in the previous operation. The insert (CNMG160616) can be used both for roughing and for finishing, in fact. Once again, we will let CoroPlus calculate the optimal cutting parameters for the insert and simply copy and paste them. Let’s now launch the command!

The Tool tab

As we should already know, inside...