The BEST Fusion 360 CAM Feature: Templates!! Fusion Friday #24
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Fusion 360 is great software - but the CAM templates may be its best single feature. Templates let you go from CAD model to G-Code in few minutes - if not seconds!
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This video is 4 years old and so totally relevant. I’m making a stack of hinge brackets that are all just slightly different. Making a template just saved me hours!
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Fireball tools lost his video of using a wire to level a welding table and it an incredible explanation of the technique.
I really would hate to lose all of your great tips.
Great video John! Templates are the best. I went through and created one for each spot/drill/tap cycle for all my taps.
Also you can store your templates in the cloud! Just go into your preferences and click "use cloud templates" or something like that and you can find them anywhere you log in. But you have to create the template while connected to the internet or you have to upload it manually to your A360 folder
+NYC CNC Ah that's too bad. we use them between 3 computers at our shop no problem, and at my day job on 4 different seats and computers. I guess it's just luck of the draw. What issues were you encountering?
You just saved me 3+ hours of work per day...
This video deserves more likes!
Just so you know, it's almost entirely your fault for me having the brand new HAAS SMM. Thanks John! :)
Also with Chamfering selection, if you just select the FACE the toolpath will auto select all the edges
So many features I never would have known existed!
Another fine video, John. Like these Fusion 360 Fridays.
I've been searching for exactly this. Thanks from 2023!
Yep, Use for much like you did 2.5D Work with a spot drill then another template with 1/4-20 ,3/8 -16, 2-56 and 10-32 I use mixed of these thread pretty much daily then I have another template file with 82 Deg Counter Set Depths for each of common depths because it's a setting them up each time
So glad to see a video of this, hard to visualize when you're chatting about it on BOM.
Great tip! I will definitely incorporate this into my process! Have a great open house!
This is awesome, thanks for pointing it out! I'll definitely be making use of templates now.
Great tip! Templates are my new favorite feature in Fusion360. Thanks for sharing.
Very Nice! I'm going to try it out with left and right sided parts
cool, i use macros a lot in powermill but this works great in Fusion 360
Wow, I didn't even know there were templates in Fusion. This is awesome! Thanks for sharing, John.Tom Z
Awesome stuff John, this will save me a ton of time. Thanks!
your video quality is amazing, what camera are you using?
@nyccnc: pls promote this video more! Seems like too little users actually know what a timesaver that is 🖤
Excellent feature! I need to go in and set up a template file like that.
OMG.. why didn't I know this a year ago... My productivity is about to explode! Thanks!
Follow up question: Can Component Operation Patterns be added collectively to a template? Thanks again!
Great tip, thanks, didn't know this was a thing is fusion. +1 for the chamfering video, would love to see the standard 2d chamfers, but also 3d chamfers and multiple DOC chamfers!
You Sir, are an inspiration!
Jon Great Video, I'll suggest a little further our makerspace has a mini mill this means that we could setup templates also based on materials. as well as paths this would allow our members to switch materials for the same part First using Machinable way to prove the part. Tell me if I'm wrong
+NYC CNC I totally agree . Our members are are in a hurry and don't want to do the math and spend the time to have the skill so I'm thinking some extremely conservative paths with the feeds and speeds for a set of bits will give them a start we don't have toolholders so they will need to change bits and set them.
Wow, that's great. Thanks John!!
Great video. I have been using templates for a while, now. I make small molds and a lot of the work is very similar from one mold to the next.
My templates are available on all three computers I use, office, shop and home.
+NYC CNC I suppose so. I am using cloud library, so maybe that covers the templates as well. Something I read says they are stored in A360.
This is great!!!
Fusion won't "create from template" for me. I downloaded the master file, uploaded it to Fusion, opened it, selected all the operations in the setup, stored as a template, then went to my file, created a new setup, set the stock, then right-clicked on it and selected "Create From Template," selected the newly-saved template, and…nothing.
I am able to copy and paste the ops.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Sr. you work a lotttt. :😎
Yes, awesome.
cool
👍👍👍
If I said I don't like it I'd be lying.
John, how do you get around F360 buggy-ness, crashes, incomplete functionality, limited drawing tools, lack of documentation, changes in command procedures, missing features/ buttons, etc. etc. etc. This software is BETA but you and AD act like its ready for prime time, and nowhere is it mentioned that it is in active early development. You even documented a major machine crash caused by bad g-code in F360's machine profiles! I have been pulling my hair out with this product I even tried to make a alum. washer 1/16" thick, boring and circular profiles both gave me arbitrary tool offsets despite having offsets set to zero! If I didn't do "air" cuts first I would have crashed my machine!! How do you put up with this????
Fair enough, but I'm not complaining I'm calling it like I see it! I have yet to be able to make a simple part without major problems and I'm not doing commercial work. I bang out parts weekly/daily with other cad/3rd party cam programs....Now I'm just realizing that AD is your sponsor, so please disregard.
To me it looks like you expect fusion to work as the cad/cam packages you know? (Struggled too, at first).
Try learning from scratch!
(Some quirks admittedly there, yet they are getting fixed & it really starts to shine!)
This is why I dumped MasterCAM. Seriously.