Importing our chuck
As we already discussed, in order to avoid collisions between our tool and our chuck, it is a good idea to have something that emulates the size of our chuck or our components inside our 3D world. We are about to discover how to simulate chuck placement; however, just before moving forward, I’d like to highlight what I consider a bad type of advertising.
If you have ever watched any advertisement for CAM software, you have probably noticed that alongside the machined part, not only there is a chuck or a tool holder in place, but there are also lots of complex details of the machine. The truth is that all that stuff is there just for marketing purposes!
In order to find possible collisions between the stock and our machine or between the tool and our machine, a set of properly placed boxes is as effective as a super fancy 3D model with all those extra details. However, Fusion 360 provides a pretty big group of work-holding tools, so we may decide to...
