Jim, I've watched 100s of fusion videos for hours and hours, but this one oh my, the tips here are AWESOME. Setting "stock to leave radial" to negative value for fit and glue, ingenious! I've been working on finger-jointed guitar speaker cabinets and couldn't figure out how to cad the gluing spacer. I've spent hours on this, your solution handles everything in 1 second. Thank you!
Excellent video, Jim! Very helpful in setting up tool libraries. I've been inputting all the tool data each time, and now I can see the value in creating tool libraries.
Many thanks for great video, am in the process of changing over to Fusion 360 from Cut 2D (and TurboCAD) working with a Stepcraft D600/2, so can now see differences in creating toolpaths.
This exactly what Autidesk should do fir videos. Much better then that Lars drama queen. I have been using fusion fir two years now and I learned a few things watching your video. Thanks for making this video.
This is an amazing video... I'm about 2 days to late to watch it though seeing how I just ran a bunch of parts.. but the dog bone trick is amazing! Would have saved my self a lot of time with the file..
I would love to see a list of all the settings you are using because sometimes it is hard to follow along and then I get to the end and get a failed to generate tool path and I can't tell what setting is incorrect to get the tool path to run. Otherwise I love the dog bone trick (even though I have found it a little glitchie at times I can usually get it set up correctly in the end) and I think I am going to love getting my tool paths done on Fusion one I get through the set up correctly. Please post the settings if you can thanks.
This is a great video, and you taught me so much! I'm hoping to do my first cut from Fusion 360 on our ShopBot soon. (I've only used VCarve before.) I have a question, though. When setting up the CAM for the outer contours, you said you don't want to bother with a finishing pass, yet you enabled Roughing Passes. It seems to me if you only have one pass, then that cut is the finishing pass by default, and you should only enable Roughing Passes if you _want_ more than one pass, where the finishing pass is smaller. If you want the first pass to be the one and only pass, don't enable Roughing Passes at all. I tried it both ways, and when I enable Roughing Passes with a Number of Stepovers set to 1 (the default), I get two passes in total, which is not what you got. One that starts a little bit away from the model, and skips the dogbone fillets, and a second that cuts off just a little amount of stock plus it does the fillets. I'm using a much newer version, of course. Maybe something changed, but even so, if you only want one pass, why enable Roughing Passes?
Nice tutorial JY, I think that you could be getting more views. Perhaps in the removing "Using" from the title. I don't pretend to understand the inner works of YT, but I have been searching for suitable content for over two years and never crossed paths with you. Subbed :-)
Yes Fusion has a few more/different options for machining, but VCarve is much easier to use. Not up on Fusions tool configuration and maybe it can do this, In VCarve once the tools are set up, it calculates the depth of cut, step overs, height above etc. The set up seems much faster...less hoops to jump through to run the tool path, but like I say I am not up on the cam portion of Fusion. One would just have to use the DXF file you imported there is no need to extrude objects to a height. Granted this could be beneficial with more then one height having a 2D, 2 1/2D drawing...the VCarve alternative is easy though. Enough of this, great tutorial....well laid out and executed. Off to look at your others.
Hi Tom, In Fusion 360 it is not necessary to make a 3D model to generate a tool path. Just import the DXF file into a sketch, then go into CAM mode. Use the sketch to make the tool path. I should have said that at the start of the video. I use VCarve Pro also, but I don't' have a copy at home. As a hobbyist the biggest difference between VCarve and Fusion is the cost. As a non professional VCarve is currently $699.00 and Fusion is $0.00
You don't have a copy at home....but if you have one at work....If you have exclusive access to the computers on which you wish to install the licensed Software, you can install the licensed Software onto more than one computer, (up to a maximum of 3), provided that the licensed Software is only used on one of the computers at any one time.
Jim, I've watched 100s of fusion videos for hours and hours, but this one oh my, the tips here are AWESOME. Setting "stock to leave radial" to negative value for fit and glue, ingenious! I've been working on finger-jointed guitar speaker cabinets and couldn't figure out how to cad the gluing spacer. I've spent hours on this, your solution handles everything in 1 second. Thank you!
Very clear and well done. I'm sharing with my students at Arizona State University who are diving into using Fusion 360 for generating G-Code.
Excellent video, Jim! Very helpful in setting up tool libraries. I've been inputting all the tool data each time, and now I can see the value in creating tool libraries.
I found my Fusion360 learning anxiety level drop considerably watching your video Jim. Thanks. ,,, and Subscribed.
Many thanks for great video, am in the process of changing over to Fusion 360 from Cut 2D (and TurboCAD) working with a Stepcraft D600/2, so can now see differences in creating toolpaths.
Jim, Great video, very well presented and very clear.
This exactly what Autidesk should do fir videos. Much better then that Lars drama queen. I have been using fusion fir two years now and I learned a few things watching your video. Thanks for making this video.
This is an amazing video... I'm about 2 days to late to watch it though seeing how I just ran a bunch of parts.. but the dog bone trick is amazing! Would have saved my self a lot of time with the file..
Excellent video. Very helpful. Thank you very much
Thx, Jim. Well done. Very useful.
I'm a little late to the party but thank you for this video.
Thanks Jim, great video.
I would love to see a list of all the settings you are using because sometimes it is hard to follow along and then I get to the end and get a failed to generate tool path and I can't tell what setting is incorrect to get the tool path to run. Otherwise I love the dog bone trick (even though I have found it a little glitchie at times I can usually get it set up correctly in the end) and I think I am going to love getting my tool paths done on Fusion one I get through the set up correctly. Please post the settings if you can thanks.
This is a great video, and you taught me so much! I'm hoping to do my first cut from Fusion 360 on our ShopBot soon. (I've only used VCarve before.) I have a question, though. When setting up the CAM for the outer contours, you said you don't want to bother with a finishing pass, yet you enabled Roughing Passes. It seems to me if you only have one pass, then that cut is the finishing pass by default, and you should only enable Roughing Passes if you _want_ more than one pass, where the finishing pass is smaller. If you want the first pass to be the one and only pass, don't enable Roughing Passes at all. I tried it both ways, and when I enable Roughing Passes with a Number of Stepovers set to 1 (the default), I get two passes in total, which is not what you got. One that starts a little bit away from the model, and skips the dogbone fillets, and a second that cuts off just a little amount of stock plus it does the fillets. I'm using a much newer version, of course. Maybe something changed, but even so, if you only want one pass, why enable Roughing Passes?
Nice tutorial JY, I think that you could be getting more views. Perhaps in the removing "Using" from the title. I don't pretend to understand the inner works of YT, but I have been searching for suitable content for over two years and never crossed paths with you. Subbed :-)
how do you change the Toolpath starting point? Thank you
Yes Fusion has a few more/different options for machining, but VCarve is much easier to use. Not up on Fusions tool configuration and maybe it can do this, In VCarve once the tools are set up, it calculates the depth of cut, step overs, height above etc. The set up seems much faster...less hoops to jump through to run the tool path, but like I say I am not up on the cam portion of Fusion. One would just have to use the DXF file you imported there is no need to extrude objects to a height. Granted this could be beneficial with more then one height having a 2D, 2 1/2D drawing...the VCarve alternative is easy though. Enough of this, great tutorial....well laid out and executed. Off to look at your others.
Hi Tom,
In Fusion 360 it is not necessary to make a 3D model to generate a tool path. Just import the DXF file into a sketch, then go into CAM mode. Use the sketch to make the tool path. I should have said that at the start of the video. I use VCarve Pro also, but I don't' have a copy at home. As a hobbyist the biggest difference between VCarve and Fusion is the cost. As a non professional VCarve is currently $699.00 and Fusion is $0.00
You don't have a copy at home....but if you have one at work....If you have exclusive access to the computers on which you wish to install the licensed Software, you can install the licensed Software onto more than one computer, (up to a maximum of 3), provided that the licensed Software is only used on one of the computers at any one time.
beter all dogebone and undogbone the view ??