That linking is sooooo simple yet I never knew it existed. I’ve been cutting multiple parts out of sheet goods one part at a time which is stupid. This one trick is going to save me lots of time. Thx.
I really enjoy these vids, John. I'm getting knee deep in this and working with my cnc shark HD4 with water cooled spindle. I've got everything dialed in to .001. It's so nice not having to go to a machine shop. the time and money saved is YUGE!!!
Hi John. Say you were milling those parts, any reason why you would opt to double side machine from thicker stock rather than just using 1/4in stock to single side machine and leaving tabs? If you don't like tabs i guess you could use 1/4in stock on a fixture plate, drill and mill the holes and then bolt down using 3 holes and finally mill the profile. I try to avoid flipping parts if possible, it just eats up so much time, it usually wastes more material and it invites opportunity for failure due to misalignment. As always, thanks for the great video's!
Hey John, I'm trying to make like 36 of the same part. Tiny little square things (12x12mm) out of a sheet of 2.5mm Aluminum. 2D and 3D adaptive seem to take forever running around these little bricks. Any way to get it to slot through the streets and alley ways to do the bulk of the material removal first? I've made sure to leave enough room between the parts for the larger bits (6mm). Even with stay down at "Most" there is a ton of back tracking and lift and plunge going on. Like I said, in an ideal world I'd like to slot through the alley ways and then run a quick multipass contour around the actual nuances of my geometry.
Obviously I'm very late to the game, but this was very close to what I was looking for. I get the gist of this, but I'm wondering if fusion offers anything more flexible and accurate than simply dragging parts around by arbitrary values? For example, I would like to do what you did, but imagine that I have parts that I routinely scale to custom sizes. I want to pack them densely, but ensure that as I scale them, ideally I would keep the spacing in between the parts slightly larger than my largest tool diameter. I feel like what I am looking for is more akin to mating in solidworks, where I could set distances based off of part geometry, and those distances would update as I changed the part. Would something like that be possible?
Hey, I want to do something similar, but with sheet metal parts. They would need to be unfolded in the 'assembly' file. Do you know a way to accomplish this? Thanks!
How do you align the parts at a specified distance?, I'm moving from Solidworks but I'm trying to find the equivalent to the DISTANCE mate which allows me to move parallel faces at the distance I want.
Hi John, Im having some problems with a geometry that looks like cooling fins with a chamfer around the edges. This means that the edge is broken in multiple places and a 'regular' chamfering op won't work. I tried the patch tool but it fails. Is there any way that you could help me out? I bet that there is plenty more people out there that has the same issue.
Did you have a problem the other day with your fusion, that your parts were locked in the sketch? you could make a new part and modify with no problem, once you saved that and reopened it, it's like it was locked from further editing. lost hours and hours of work! I've emailed Autodesk and have yet to hear back. The problem hasn't come back.
Thanks for the tips. I just started to learn fusion360 because I will be purchasing a cnc rounter very shortly :)
Two really useful tips - fixturing and accurate moving - many thanks !
That linking is sooooo simple yet I never knew it existed. I’ve been cutting multiple parts out of sheet goods one part at a time which is stupid. This one trick is going to save me lots of time. Thx.
I really enjoy these vids, John. I'm getting knee deep in this and working with my cnc shark HD4 with water cooled spindle. I've got everything dialed in to .001. It's so nice not having to go to a machine shop. the time and money saved is YUGE!!!
Awesome!
This will be handy, thanks John!
Great. Thank you
I don't even have a cnc or a working lathe and i still love learning this stuff lol really thank's john .
Learning so much from your videos man. Great great job.. Thank you.
Great content as usual
Hi John. Say you were milling those parts, any reason why you would opt to double side machine from thicker stock rather than just using 1/4in stock to single side machine and leaving tabs? If you don't like tabs i guess you could use 1/4in stock on a fixture plate, drill and mill the holes and then bolt down using 3 holes and finally mill the profile. I try to avoid flipping parts if possible, it just eats up so much time, it usually wastes more material and it invites opportunity for failure due to misalignment. As always, thanks for the great video's!
Lets say you wanted to make 2 of the same piece, can it be done without a second model with a cam pattern of some type?
very helpful thanks.
Hey John, I'm trying to make like 36 of the same part. Tiny little square things (12x12mm) out of a sheet of 2.5mm Aluminum. 2D and 3D adaptive seem to take forever running around these little bricks. Any way to get it to slot through the streets and alley ways to do the bulk of the material removal first? I've made sure to leave enough room between the parts for the larger bits (6mm). Even with stay down at "Most" there is a ton of back tracking and lift and plunge going on. Like I said, in an ideal world I'd like to slot through the alley ways and then run a quick multipass contour around the actual nuances of my geometry.
Obviously I'm very late to the game, but this was very close to what I was looking for. I get the gist of this, but I'm wondering if fusion offers anything more flexible and accurate than simply dragging parts around by arbitrary values? For example, I would like to do what you did, but imagine that I have parts that I routinely scale to custom sizes. I want to pack them densely, but ensure that as I scale them, ideally I would keep the spacing in between the parts slightly larger than my largest tool diameter. I feel like what I am looking for is more akin to mating in solidworks, where I could set distances based off of part geometry, and those distances would update as I changed the part. Would something like that be possible?
Hey, I want to do something similar, but with sheet metal parts. They would need to be unfolded in the 'assembly' file. Do you know a way to accomplish this? Thanks!
How do you align the parts at a specified distance?, I'm moving from Solidworks but I'm trying to find the equivalent to the DISTANCE mate which allows me to move parallel faces at the distance I want.
Hi John, Im having some problems with a geometry that looks like cooling fins with a chamfer around the edges. This means that the edge is broken in multiple places and a 'regular' chamfering op won't work. I tried the patch tool but it fails. Is there any way that you could help me out? I bet that there is plenty more people out there that has the same issue.
Did you have a problem the other day with your fusion, that your parts were locked in the sketch? you could make a new part and modify with no problem, once you saved that and reopened it, it's like it was locked from further editing. lost hours and hours of work! I've emailed Autodesk and have yet to hear back. The problem hasn't come back.
the gain on your mic is too high