Thanks for making these, I miss your regular Fusion360 how-to’s, and with new features always appearing in Fusion, your vids really help us who are learning.
Watching right now... How great would it be if Fusion had an Apply button for tool paths! Instead of clicking on OK to see the results and then having to click Edit again, you would just click Apply, view the results and proceed as usual
Wow. It took 2 hrs to work through this one, taking notes and backing up a million times, but so valuable. Im a wood cnc user, but i love your channel and i appreciate the content you're providing.
This was a SUPER informative video. I was able to make many improvements to my tool paths (not just Contour, but 3D adaptive too). But my machine bogs on all the little short segments. I think HSM might be the ultimate solution, but sadly that's a $3000 solution. LOL.
We continue to have this problem on a regular basis. What you think should be a straight forward path it adds a bunch of whisper cuts to it. I recently found that the fine setup down on the passes tab causes a bunch of problems with this. Thanks for the info and would love to see more causes of whisper cuts or air cuts for the other tool paths. Maybe even some more info on what the options are actually used for.
Very nice coverage of what contour can do! also as a previous video of yours covers, it can handle undercut geometry with what fusion calls a "Slot Mill" or a full radius keyseat cutter! I don't know all of the reasons that it is limited, but it frustrates me that the green linking moves are unaffected by the smoothing values and contain a ton of points unless you make them into straight plunge moves.
When I started with fusion 360 it took me way to long to realize 3d contour is what I wanted for most everything. I'm running a CNC router. So I assumed 2d contour was the primary tool to use. Great to have a little refresher on it. The shallow machining is something I was not aware of. I would usually go to a morphed spiral or parallel tool path for these areas. I'd love to see more videos like this one. Maybe some updates to your older videos to bring them up to the current version of Fusion360.
I would have used the 3D Ramp tool path for that geometry and every similar where you have a continuous tool path around the part. It's generally smother as long as your machine can keep up with the extra lines of code it generates. (Caveat i use Inventor + Inventor Cam so Fusion might be different)
If the machine has any real amount of memory, I would use a ramp tool path on that all day long and you won’t see the step down links in the part like you will with this
This all pretty much universal between any CADCAM program. NX, Mastercam, Esprit. They all function pretty much identically, they just may use SLIGHTLY different terminology.
Thanks for making these, I miss your regular Fusion360 how-to’s, and with new features always appearing in Fusion, your vids really help us who are learning.
Watching right now... How great would it be if Fusion had an Apply button for tool paths! Instead of clicking on OK to see the results and then having to click Edit again, you would just click Apply, view the results and proceed as usual
Yes "Apply" is not in Fusion much. I wonder if it's a limitation because of the way Fusion was developed.
-Ken
Wow. It took 2 hrs to work through this one, taking notes and backing up a million times, but so valuable. Im a wood cnc user, but i love your channel and i appreciate the content you're providing.
This was a SUPER informative video. I was able to make many improvements to my tool paths (not just Contour, but 3D adaptive too). But my machine bogs on all the little short segments. I think HSM might be the ultimate solution, but sadly that's a $3000 solution. LOL.
I've struggled with this toolpath for a while, thanks for providing some answers!
This was very helpful, I have been pulling my hair out trying to program a dome hub cap with a logo in the center that protrudes outward.
Curves look so simple but in reality are rather hard to make. Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the detailed explanation of this toolpath John. Super helpful!
Great walk-thru! Thanks! I'm sure I will refer to this video a few times in the next months!
Great video John. Thanks!
We continue to have this problem on a regular basis. What you think should be a straight forward path it adds a bunch of whisper cuts to it. I recently found that the fine setup down on the passes tab causes a bunch of problems with this. Thanks for the info and would love to see more causes of whisper cuts or air cuts for the other tool paths. Maybe even some more info on what the options are actually used for.
Very nice coverage of what contour can do! also as a previous video of yours covers, it can handle undercut geometry with what fusion calls a "Slot Mill" or a full radius keyseat cutter!
I don't know all of the reasons that it is limited, but it frustrates me that the green linking moves are unaffected by the smoothing values and contain a ton of points unless you make them into straight plunge moves.
When I started with fusion 360 it took me way to long to realize 3d contour is what I wanted for most everything. I'm running a CNC router. So I assumed 2d contour was the primary tool to use.
Great to have a little refresher on it. The shallow machining is something I was not aware of. I would usually go to a morphed spiral or parallel tool path for these areas.
I'd love to see more videos like this one. Maybe some updates to your older videos to bring them up to the current version of Fusion360.
Please use 3d contour flow operation .
I love using function 3D Flow . Its epic 😍
Yeah flow automatically scales step overs to match the curvature. Eliminates the need to worry about steep to shallow transitions
@@dajulster its fast and beautufull
As always very informative and helpful!
Greetings from Germany☺
Great, always learn something from your videos
good work John
I would have used the 3D Ramp tool path for that geometry and every similar where you have a continuous tool path around the part. It's generally smother as long as your machine can keep up with the extra lines of code it generates.
(Caveat i use Inventor + Inventor Cam so Fusion might be different)
Great tutorial!
will you ever do a shop tour with AVE?
Great video, but i still fight it to blend the top. it always leaves a small step and it drives me crazy
I NEED TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR COURSES,
Nice job
Thanks
If the machine has any real amount of memory, I would use a ramp tool path on that all day long and you won’t see the step down links in the part like you will with this
This all pretty much universal between any CADCAM program. NX, Mastercam, Esprit. They all function pretty much identically, they just may use SLIGHTLY different terminology.
I don't cam a lot but whene ever i do i get this no toolpath generated error and it is brain wrecking.
1:30 please dont cut air. Use 3d flow