Thank you so so much John, that Alt key trick is life changing, I honestly can't tell you the number of times I've nearly lost my shit trying to select lines with the bloody open contour, green plus thing!
Another thing on tolerance is smoothing, aka arc filtering. You need to make sure your smoothing plus your tolerance is less than your stock to leave or you will risk gouging. On that note, use as much smoothing as you can, it will reduce your file size decreasing the number blocks per second your control has to crunch (very important to high speed tool paths and old controls) and increase the real feed rates by eliminating sharp corners! Another benefit is it lets you run your control settings tighter (less max deviation) so that when you are finishing you get more accuracy with higher feeds as the 'looseness' is all in the code not the control. Better parts overall. Keep up the good videos!
Great! Didn't know about the Alt Contour or the Remove unused tool option! Very useful. Thanks! I have a tip for you too.... It starts with 3DConnexion. : ) When I don't have mine, the fusion team has done a great job with the Mac's Multi-touch trackpad. It's great for orienting your part and keeping your hands on the keyboard. Thanks again!
Great as always! Love that tool. Have been fairly annoyed changing the views back and forth with the stock option. I wish Autodesk just included this with Fusion 360! Now I have to go install it on the other computers! Thanks John!
Great take-aways. My favorite might be tip number 11, though: Use of the word "hogwash"! Haha, I never hear anyone use that word here in the NYC area. Love it.
That's so funny you show the 's' key and search. Back in the day it was all command line stuff. No nice GUI, just a console and that's all you got and it was great! J/k it was annoying, but it's interesting to see a sudo-console start coming back.
Thanks John! That visual style bar will come in very handy. Are there any other plugins you use on the daily? Do you know what the difference between tolerance and smoothing is? I always use smoothing to limit program size...I have a machine that is limited to 60k :( Smoothing seems kind of like filtering in mastercam.
Alt, ctrl and shift have a lot of functions attached to them, if something does not work useing one of the 3 may be the ticket, try it next time you have some time on your hands, there is a lot
I installed the Visual Style Plugin - you can configure the shown settings. -after first startup after installing the plugin you have to click "yes" if you get asked to create a preference folder. Or they updated? Here my settings: keinefarbe.de/files/fusion_settings.jpg
Hello John, I'm just starting to make my own CNC router, and I'll use an arduino to control it. I already have all the pieces and things to make it run, only need the leadscrews to arrive then I can finally "build" it. One question that I have, is this: Is there a free alternative to Fusion? It doesn't need to have so much options like Fusion does, but just to see how the material is going to be cut? Thanks, just subscribed!
:O! Really nice to know this! I just need to send them some e-mail or is there a direct download link? The one in the description lists a paid version.
Truly amazing tips John. Have you found any way to generate an Involute/Evolute profile in Fusion? Or just an equation curve? I'm doing a cam based joystick and found a tutorial on it, but alas I don't speak Russian and Google really butchers the translation. I could do it in Rhino3D as it will do amazing magic. Ever tried it? Perfect for import/export. Developable surfaces Still retains a really useful command line, so it feels like a dialog based CNC. Plus the price is low compared to all the CAD programs
NYC CNC Well, if and only if Fusion allowed equation curves I could potentially do archimedean spirals, non standard gears with the correct flank angles, make compressors (superchargers), parabolas, butterfly curves, kinematic cam profiles, reverse cam profiles and specific lift tables derived from those. There is a lot of power just using equations.
Great tips! Thank-you. If you're on the fence about using the Tool Library, another perk is the data is pretty easy to access once you enter it in Fusion 360. The file format is just a zipped JSON format - pretty easy to parse and work with. I wrote a Python script to generate my LinuxCNC tool table. Even if you don't use LinuxCNC it should be pretty easy to modify the script for other things. github.com/ntc490/fusion360/
Just kinda FYI if you didn't know already (I just learned myself) about M.2 SSDs running on the PCI express bus... INSANE. You'd need a new motherboard and CPU if you don't already have M.2 capability but SATA III SSDs are what, 500 MB/s read and write and 90k IOPS for a nice one? M.2 SSDs? Friggin 3,200 MB/s and 330k IOPS! They aren't even much more expensive but you do need a newer mobo with M.2 support. Guess what upgrade I'm looking at next? :)
John, if you haven't read this yet, go take a look. Total nerd out on Tolerance and Smoothing, very very helpful. Lots and lots of data. forums.autodesk.com/t5/computer-aided-machining-cam/understanding-smoothing/m-p/6638719#M18671
According to the author of the Visual Styles plugin, v1.2 (the one you linked) should provide a menu to allow customizing which buttons are shown. See his help file here, where it has screenshots of the menu. This didn't appear for me, and now I can't even get the plugin to work at all (it did the first time). I'm waiting on a reply from him. apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/HelpDoc?appId=170904292335894747&appLang=en&os=Mac
One tip I learned when in college was to use a keypad mouse. It's a good investment, and you can buy one for less than $20. Here's one for sale on ebay. www.ebay.com/itm/like/262754503720?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true There are more models than just the Canon one, but they seem to have gone way up in price since I bought mine.
That double click the mouse wheel is a good one for me. I'm always losing the part off into space. Another great one John! Thanks.
Right on John!!! Thanks for the tips.
I did in fact learn something; several somethings! Thanks!
Very very helpful, thanks John.
Thanks, John. I always learn something and some things I need a reminder. Im finally downloading the plugin...
Awesome tips, thanks John!
Thank you so so much John, that Alt key trick is life changing, I honestly can't tell you the number of times I've nearly lost my shit trying to select lines with the bloody open contour, green plus thing!
AWESOME Session!!! Some great nuggets in this video.
Could have used a couple of those months ago!! LOL!! Thanks! I'll be using them now!!! :)
totally helpful...thanks john.
Awesome stuff, thanks i really appreciate the effort you put into your channel.
Great stuff. Yes I'm up late at the hotel catching up with your vids. P.S. Muddy's was great. Awesome steak.
Another thing on tolerance is smoothing, aka arc filtering. You need to make sure your smoothing plus your tolerance is less than your stock to leave or you will risk gouging. On that note, use as much smoothing as you can, it will reduce your file size decreasing the number blocks per second your control has to crunch (very important to high speed tool paths and old controls) and increase the real feed rates by eliminating sharp corners! Another benefit is it lets you run your control settings tighter (less max deviation) so that when you are finishing you get more accuracy with higher feeds as the 'looseness' is all in the code not the control. Better parts overall. Keep up the good videos!
WWM and John put a great link up at the top on this. WWM thanks for the help in the past on this on IG.
I did learn! Awesome video.
Great! Didn't know about the Alt Contour or the Remove unused tool option! Very useful. Thanks! I have a tip for you too.... It starts with 3DConnexion. : ) When I don't have mine, the fusion team has done a great job with the Mac's Multi-touch trackpad. It's great for orienting your part and keeping your hands on the keyboard. Thanks again!
Well done john!
Thanks for the tips they are much appreciated!
Thanks for the tips, John!
-- Cheers, Gary
Extremely helpful!
Great as always! Love that tool. Have been fairly annoyed changing the views back and forth with the stock option. I wish Autodesk just included this with Fusion 360! Now I have to go install it on the other computers! Thanks John!
Great take-aways. My favorite might be tip number 11, though: Use of the word "hogwash"!
Haha, I never hear anyone use that word here in the NYC area. Love it.
Yeah, this looks like a ton of work and _m-e-m-o-r-i-z-a-t-i-o-n_ needed.
No different then any other piece of software, unless you just want to click all day.
cool video.
That's so funny you show the 's' key and search. Back in the day it was all command line stuff. No nice GUI, just a console and that's all you got and it was great! J/k it was annoying, but it's interesting to see a sudo-console start coming back.
awesome 👍
Thanks John! That visual style bar will come in very handy. Are there any other plugins you use on the daily? Do you know what the difference between tolerance and smoothing is? I always use smoothing to limit program size...I have a machine that is limited to 60k :( Smoothing seems kind of like filtering in mastercam.
Will the inspect button (ruler) on the toolbar help in measuring the distance between CAM lines ?
All great tips, the only one i knew was ctrl G!
Alt, ctrl and shift have a lot of functions attached to them, if something does not work useing one of the 3 may be the ticket, try it next time you have some time on your hands, there is a lot
I installed the Visual Style Plugin - you can configure the shown settings. -after first startup after installing the plugin you have to click "yes" if you get asked to create a preference folder. Or they updated?
Here my settings:
keinefarbe.de/files/fusion_settings.jpg
Hello John, I'm just starting to make my own CNC router, and I'll use an arduino to control it. I already have all the pieces and things to make it run, only need the leadscrews to arrive then I can finally "build" it.
One question that I have, is this: Is there a free alternative to Fusion? It doesn't need to have so much options like Fusion does, but just to see how the material is going to be cut?
Thanks, just subscribed!
:O!
Really nice to know this!
I just need to send them some e-mail or is there a direct download link? The one in the description lists a paid version.
I think its fitting that the first 5th test should be a Porsche.
Truly amazing tips John.
Have you found any way to generate an Involute/Evolute profile in Fusion? Or just an equation curve?
I'm doing a cam based joystick and found a tutorial on it, but alas I don't speak Russian and Google really butchers the translation.
I could do it in Rhino3D as it will do amazing magic. Ever tried it?
Perfect for import/export.
Developable surfaces
Still retains a really useful command line, so it feels like a dialog based CNC.
Plus the price is low compared to all the CAD programs
NYC CNC Well, if and only if Fusion allowed equation curves I could potentially do archimedean spirals, non standard gears with the correct flank angles, make compressors (superchargers), parabolas, butterfly curves, kinematic cam profiles, reverse cam profiles and specific lift tables derived from those. There is a lot of power just using equations.
Great tips! Thank-you. If you're on the fence about using the Tool Library, another perk is the data is pretty easy to access once you enter it in Fusion 360. The file format is just a zipped JSON format - pretty easy to parse and work with. I wrote a Python script to generate my LinuxCNC tool table. Even if you don't use LinuxCNC it should be pretty easy to modify the script for other things. github.com/ntc490/fusion360/
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Sounds like a faster computer is in order now
Just kinda FYI if you didn't know already (I just learned myself) about M.2 SSDs running on the PCI express bus... INSANE. You'd need a new motherboard and CPU if you don't already have M.2 capability but SATA III SSDs are what, 500 MB/s read and write and 90k IOPS for a nice one? M.2 SSDs? Friggin 3,200 MB/s and 330k IOPS! They aren't even much more expensive but you do need a newer mobo with M.2 support. Guess what upgrade I'm looking at next? :)
John, if you haven't read this yet, go take a look. Total nerd out on Tolerance and Smoothing, very very helpful. Lots and lots of data.
forums.autodesk.com/t5/computer-aided-machining-cam/understanding-smoothing/m-p/6638719#M18671
Oh and great video,,, alt click OMG, add that to the arsenal!
According to the author of the Visual Styles plugin, v1.2 (the one you linked) should provide a menu to allow customizing which buttons are shown. See his help file here, where it has screenshots of the menu. This didn't appear for me, and now I can't even get the plugin to work at all (it did the first time). I'm waiting on a reply from him. apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/HelpDoc?appId=170904292335894747&appLang=en&os=Mac
One tip I learned when in college was to use a keypad mouse. It's a good investment, and you can buy one for less than $20. Here's one for sale on ebay.
www.ebay.com/itm/like/262754503720?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true
There are more models than just the Canon one, but they seem to have gone way up in price since I bought mine.