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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Understanding extruder parameters

In this section, we will review all the parameters related to the extruder, its temperature, and its behavior when printing:

Figure 17.7: Extrusion panel

The options are divided into two main categories:

Extrusion: A list of settings that control the extrusion width of every extruder
Extruder #: A list of options to control each extruder, independently controlling parameters such as temperature and extrusion flow

Let’s take a look at these in more detail.

Extrusion options

The following parameters are mostly related to the dimension of the nozzle and are rarely changed:

Part Extruder: When using a multi-extruder printer, this selection panel can specify which extruder shall be used to print the part geometries.
All the options from Extrusion Width (mm) up to Bridge Extrusion Width (mm): These values are used to determine the width of the toolpath. As a best practice for most...