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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

Solving a very bad design

Now that we mentioned a few of the typical problems we may find with parts, we can review an example part to be machined from a squared stock. Let’s suppose that we are CAM operators and that a group of designers give us this part to realize:

Figure 7.21: Example part to machine

Figure 7.21: Example part to machine

This part is most likely an April fool’s joke against us; there are a number of very big mistakes that not even a beginner can be excused for! But let’s imagine this is the real deal and that we have to somehow machine it with our milling machine.

Let’s review the mistakes one by one and try to find possible solutions with the design team.

Undercut face

There is a well-pronounced sloped face that cannot be machined at the moment. As we are about to discover, there are only three options available to us to achieve a similar shape, but all of them require minor changes to the design.

There is no correct one; picking...