You're reading from Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360 Learn the basics of turning, milling, laser cutting, and 3D printing

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804612576

Length 464 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Autodesk Fusion 360

Concepts

3D Printing

Author (1):

Fabrizio Cimo

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Implementing Turning Operations in Fusion 360

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Turning and Its Tools FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Handling Part Setup for Turning

4. Chapter 3: Discovering the Tool Library and Custom Tools

5. Chapter 4: Implementing Our First Turning Operation

6. Chapter 5: Discovering More Turning Strategies

7. Part 2 – Milling with Fusion 360

8. Chapter 6: Getting Started with Milling and Its Tools

9. Chapter 7: Optimizing the Shape of Milled Parts to Avoid Design Flaws

10. Chapter 8: Part Handling and Part Setup for Milling

11. Chapter 9: Implementing Our First Milling Operations

12. Chapter 10: Machining the Second Placement

13. Part 3 – Laser Cutting Using Fusion 360

14. Chapter 11: Getting Started with Laser Cutting

15. Chapter 12: Nesting Parts for Laser Cutting

16. Chapter 13: Creating Our First Laser Cutting Operation

17. Part 4 – Using Fusion 360 for Additive Manufacturing

18. Chapter 14: Getting Started with Additive Manufacturing

19. Chapter 15: Managing the Limitations of FDM Printers

20. Chapter 16: Printing Our First Part

21. Chapter 17: Understanding Advanced Printing Settings

22. Part 5 – Testing Our Knowledge

23. Chapter 18: Quiz

24. Index

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Discovering More Turning Strategies

In this chapter, we will review the most important turning operations available in Fusion 360, in order to implement all the machining needed to complete a somewhat complex design with several different features to be machined. The part we are about to use as an example may look not so difficult, but actually, it hides several challenges to overcome.

Studying this chapter is very important, as we will introduce several new turning operations, which should enable us to machine 99% of the parts we encounter.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: