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Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360

Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360

By : Fabrizio Cimo
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Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360

Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360

4.6 (8)
By: Fabrizio Cimo

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)
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Part 1 – Implementing Turning Operations in Fusion 360
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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

Using the post-processor

Now that we have completed the setup process and simulated the printing process, we can safely generate the G-code for our 3D printer via a post-processor.

As you may recall, a post-processor is a program whose scope is translating CAM operations into G-code files. Fusion 360 has quite a large set of post-processors for most of the desktop 3D printers on the market.

Let’s start the command. You can find the Post Process command in the ADDITIVE tab under the ACTIONS drop-down menu:

Figure 16.27: The Post Process command

Figure 16.27: The Post Process command

This will launch the following Post Process window:

Figure 16.28: The Post Process window

Figure 16.28: The Post Process window

The only option we will care about here is the machine model. We can browse all supported 3D printers from the Machine drop-down menu (I picked Flashforge Dreamer).

If our printer is supported by Fusion 360, there is not much else we have to do here as the default settings will work...

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