Very good video (as always) and very nice to have a series like that from start to finish. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on CAD / CAM like that, very useful.
This is turning out to be a great series of vids, could be a bit fast paced for somebody new to CAM or F360, but you can scroll back and forth in the vid if you don't catch it the first time through. Using the 3D Adaptive followed by the Flat operation is a pretty cool alternative to using Face, Adaptive and Pocket.
It’s a bit of a struggle. Too slow and I would push over an hour and lose people who get bored, too fast and new users can’t keep up very well. I’m trying hard to be in the middle. You’ll have to let me know how I’m doing with that goal as the series continues.
@@MechanicalAdvantage I have a XYZ router for my CNC. I have used Fusion 360 since 2017. I like the idea of presets in your tool library. From a machining (routing) point of view, I am still working on proper "encapsulation" of these processes. Thanks to you, I am one step closer. One problem: As Fusion has evolved, it does add a confusion factor. Learning how to keep up with improvements and new features, without making it a full time job, would be awesome.
I do use smoothing for adaptive and finishing operations like the spiral. I don't use it for things like 2D contours on prismatic geometry (lines, arc, circles). Those objects require very few lines of g-code and I want them to be as accurate as possible.
Love your content! Have you considered as an option, on a first setup, to clean up a small pocket in the center before making adaptive? Because adaptive leaves a "column" of material at the center and the last helical movement will always be with a much bigger stepover than we want. Not healthy for the tool. Hope I wrote that understandable enough, English is not my native language, sorry.
we did Op2 on parallels but used model box upper corner. Use a 123 block to get XY - done. - then Z = model top - z- shift from top of 123 block to model top. Op2 is such a dynamic concept compared to Op1 for sure
I've picked up another couple of things on this video. Thank you! Creating a point between 3 faces is what I needed recently. Question; Why was spiral selected over parallel in op1 and 4? As always I really appreciate these videos. Extremely helpful. Much gratitude.
If you can use a toolpath that matches the shape of the geometry, it will often look smoother than if you use a toolpath that doesn't. Parallel would have worked fine, but I don't think it would have looked as good.
Another great learning experience, regardless of all the '''bananas'''' everywhere :) Setup 2, with your G54 point, how did you touch that off seeing it was at the centre of the dome? I would have XY in one of the through holes in the corners, and Z off the top of the parallels..... Was this one of your mistakes? Length and pace were perfect, its easy to rewind and replay, as I did a few times, and yet again, I learned more tips. Thanks Kev, absolutely loving this series, and all the new content you are giving us. Cheers mate
Nope. For the second OP, the only really critical thing is that the Z is set off the top face of the parallels. It just needs to be close-ish in X, Y. So I used the hat of remaining stock to find the center part of that. Op2 was only to remove the hat and get the part to the proper Z thickness. Then for OP3 I used the finished part walls to reset my X and Y while leaving Z on the bottom face where it was set at the start of OP2. #AllBananasAllTheTime #IDontCareWhatCuttingEdgeEngineeringThinks
Great series really helpful to fill out my knowledge base of CAM in fusion - in setup 3, could you not have just used a "Model Box Point" instead of going back into CAD and got the same result?
It wouldn’t work in this case. Model box point finds the very extents of the model bounding box. So the top of the dome would have been the lowest point, and I was using the face below that as what sits on the parallels.
Another excellent video! 35 minutes went by very quickly.
Very good video (as always) and very nice to have a series like that from start to finish.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on CAD / CAM like that, very useful.
Learned about five things in this one. Thanks!
This is turning out to be a great series of vids, could be a bit fast paced for somebody new to CAM or F360, but you can scroll back and forth in the vid if you don't catch it the first time through. Using the 3D Adaptive followed by the Flat operation is a pretty cool alternative to using Face, Adaptive and Pocket.
It’s a bit of a struggle. Too slow and I would push over an hour and lose people who get bored, too fast and new users can’t keep up very well. I’m trying hard to be in the middle. You’ll have to let me know how I’m doing with that goal as the series continues.
@@MechanicalAdvantage I have a XYZ router for my CNC. I have used Fusion 360 since 2017. I like the idea of presets in your tool library. From a machining (routing) point of view, I am still working on proper "encapsulation" of these processes. Thanks to you, I am one step closer. One problem: As Fusion has evolved, it does add a confusion factor.
Learning how to keep up with improvements and new features, without making it a full time job, would be awesome.
Excellent Video Kevin
Always looking forward to your videos. Great job.
Why do you not use smoothing on your toolpaths. Very useful information in these videos. Thank you
I do use smoothing for adaptive and finishing operations like the spiral. I don't use it for things like 2D contours on prismatic geometry (lines, arc, circles). Those objects require very few lines of g-code and I want them to be as accurate as possible.
Love your content!
Have you considered as an option, on a first setup, to clean up a small pocket in the center before making adaptive? Because adaptive leaves a "column" of material at the center and the last helical movement will always be with a much bigger stepover than we want. Not healthy for the tool.
Hope I wrote that understandable enough, English is not my native language, sorry.
we did Op2 on parallels but used model box upper corner. Use a 123 block to get XY - done. - then Z = model top - z- shift from top of 123 block to model top. Op2 is such a dynamic concept compared to Op1 for sure
I've picked up another couple of things on this video. Thank you! Creating a point between 3 faces is what I needed recently. Question; Why was spiral selected over parallel in op1 and 4? As always I really appreciate these videos. Extremely helpful. Much gratitude.
If you can use a toolpath that matches the shape of the geometry, it will often look smoother than if you use a toolpath that doesn't. Parallel would have worked fine, but I don't think it would have looked as good.
Yep 👍
All good here
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Robert
Another great learning experience, regardless of all the '''bananas'''' everywhere :)
Setup 2, with your G54 point, how did you touch that off seeing it was at the centre of the dome? I would have XY in one of the through holes in the corners, and Z off the top of the parallels..... Was this one of your mistakes?
Length and pace were perfect, its easy to rewind and replay, as I did a few times, and yet again, I learned more tips.
Thanks Kev, absolutely loving this series, and all the new content you are giving us. Cheers mate
Nope. For the second OP, the only really critical thing is that the Z is set off the top face of the parallels. It just needs to be close-ish in X, Y. So I used the hat of remaining stock to find the center part of that. Op2 was only to remove the hat and get the part to the proper Z thickness. Then for OP3 I used the finished part walls to reset my X and Y while leaving Z on the bottom face where it was set at the start of OP2.
#AllBananasAllTheTime #IDontCareWhatCuttingEdgeEngineeringThinks
@@MechanicalAdvantage curtis is awesome 😂
Great series really helpful to fill out my knowledge base of CAM in fusion - in setup 3, could you not have just used a "Model Box Point" instead of going back into CAD and got the same result?
It wouldn’t work in this case. Model box point finds the very extents of the model bounding box. So the top of the dome would have been the lowest point, and I was using the face below that as what sits on the parallels.
Thank you very much.