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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

Preface

This book is not simply an introduction to the CAM module of Fusion 360. Of course, we will analyze in detail all the options of the program, and by the end, we will be able to create toolpaths to use with a CNC machine, that’s for sure. However, the real value of this book is the advice and best practices that come from years of experience in the industrial design and production sectors.

If they want to, anyone can download a piece of CAD software and learn it for themselves (this is how I, and many others, learned it); however, issues such as the choice of construction technology (and the relative tools to be used), the feasibility of manufacturing a component, or the optimization of a production lot are much more difficult things to learn independently. That’s why I believe that this book is valuable for any novice designer – it will save you from all the mistakes I learned the hard way!