Summary

Congratulations, we have now finished the section on milling! I’m sure that we had a good time together creating our machining strategies from scratch.

In this chapter, we faced several advanced milling strategies: we used one of the best milling operations that Fusion 360 has to offer, which is Adaptive Clearing, then we found out why it is important to find a sweet spot between roughing passes and finishing passes, and how tweaking retract movements or milling direction can increase productivity.

After that, we took quite a deep dive into thread milling, where we tried to uncover every possible parameter needed for proper machining and we found out how to check whether the selected tool was up to the task.

This was probably the most difficult chapter to understand due to the geometries and the challenges proposed; however, I promise you that the hardest part is now over.

It is now time to leave milling behind and finally move on to a new manufacturing technology...