Fusion360 Face Carve

This tutorial shows how to take a complex surface (in this case a scan of my face) and setup a nice frame model and then create a CAM tool path for it.
This was done using Autodesk Fusion 360 and a Next Engine Scanner.
autode.sk/Fusion360Download
www.nextengine.com/
I’ve been at a few events recently where various companies are offering to scan your face… Do it. Haha who doesn’t want one of these?
The key is to ask them to convert the point cloud into a NURBS surface for you.
I got this done by the folks at Next Engine at Siggraph in LA.
Here are detailed instructions:
www.inventables.com/projects/...

[@Geeksmithing]

Amazingly helpful. Thank you. Subbed.

[@carlsbadcad7073]

nice work Patrick

[@letsmakesomethingawesometo8266]

A lot of great tips here. Just got my x carve and really appreciate this video!

[@PatrickRainsberry]

thanks!

[@IndependantMind168]

Thnks for the video Patrick.

[@summerswoodworking]

That's real cool to know that the XCARVE can do this!

[@diowk]

the xcarve plus a $3000 scanner using $1000 software

[@gearcnc]

Let me see if I understand, at the beginning you put in a point previously fixed your END MILL, when you finish, place the Ball and return to the same starting point and lows until you reach the same point of height as with the END MILL and you reset zero, it is right?

[@mestevep12]

Great Video ....thank you !!!

[@RickGreenPhoto]

is there an affordable 3d scanner?

[@woodandgears2865]

Very nice video, thanks. Is there any reason not to use the 1/8 ball mill for the roughing step as well?

[@PatrickRainsberry]

+Darryl Adams You could, but it will just be much less efficient at removing the bulk material.

[@thorleiflarssen518]

Anybody figured out how to mill a exact copy of the face,..from FaceGen?

[@brukernavnfettsjit]

That is awesome! Man those delrin wheels looked dirty ^^. I've never ran my machine for this long. I don't have that much patience, and I don't dare leave the machine while it's cutting :p

[@IndependantMind168]

Not a bad habit to not leave it. :) Side shields and wipers help keep wheels clean. v groove wheels normally wipe larger chips out of the way because of their geometry. I think Pat was really conservative on his cuts and we are seeing dust compaction. Still a great vid and demo though right?

[@makinoman8704]

You just answered one of my questions I had. I am a mill or router guy. Not so interested in 3D printing. I just recently started doing my own 3D scans. I have got some really nice models but I knew no matter how nice of a scam you take you are not going to get good tool paths with a Mesh. I thought there would be a way to solidify the Mesh image. The other thing I've found is in the Mesh Mixer program used to clean up the Mesh image has an option to make the image a solid

[@PatrickRainsberry]

Yep the key is to convert to a smooth surface. There are a number of tools that can accomplish this. If you can even convert the mesh to "quads" in another tool such as Autodesk Remake, then you can convert the quads mesh to T-Splines in Fusion 360 which will give you a nice machinable surface.

[@plavix2215]

Is this a way to get around the 10,000 facet limitation? Your model looks really detailed. Looks like there is some subsurface algorithm to it.

[@plavix2215]

But how do i select thousands of t spline surfaces when i want to do a 5 axis machine toolpath? I converted a 4k quad poly model to splines.... It would take me hours to select all of them. Is there a way to combine t splines?

[@lunatic231]

Is it possible to convert jpg to stl say I'd like to 3d carve a picture of someone into wood, would I be able to convert that .jpg or .jpeg file to stl?

[@nikolaipavlovi4]

Спасибо добрый человек!

[@divljizapad]

Hello, Nice tutorials. Subscribed. Can you make 2 sided 3d cad/cam, machining tutorial using tabs? Thank you.

[@PatrickRainsberry]

+divljizapad that is actually my next project. Going to do a case for the electronics. Trying to find the time.

[@amtpdb1]

That was great. How long have you been using this program to know it as well as you do! Thanks for the video.

[@PatrickRainsberry]

+amtpdb1 To be fair I work for Autodesk on the Fusion 360 marketing team, although this stuff is a bit of a Hobby for me. I've been using Fusion for just about a year but don't really spend that much time driving it.

[@IndependantMind168]

+Patrick Rainsberry Pat. I work for a good size corp. that utilizes a number of different software packages to accomplish what I'm seeing f360 do. I have some initial questions, probably with some follow up. Could you pm or email me?

[@PatrickRainsberry]

+J Santarsiero sure absolutely

[@PatrickRainsberry]

+J Santarsiero i can't see how to PM in youtube?

[@ignaciopargavijande8576]

do you have dimensions of the original piece and total execution time?

[@PatrickRainsberry]

I believe it was about 5 x 5 inches. Total time was around 6 hours.

[@janhbrenna4264]

Wow, thats was just awsome, how long was machine time?

[@PatrickRainsberry]

Jan H Brenna Just about 6 hours i think. I went really slow and shallow on the clearing.

[@johnedwards1968]

How did you scan your face?

[@PatrickRainsberry]

It was scanned with a Next Engine scanner at a trade show.

[@cnccarving]

Patrick, I have question, can I import quad mesh into fusion? reason I asking, for me the simple guy subdividing a mesh looking like a finalized solidI know in reality they are not same.. however it would be awesome to import a basemesh, before subdividing and fusion would ""subdivide"" into solid..

[@PatrickRainsberry]

Actually you can. It has to be quads though not triangles. If you import a quad mesh it will come in as t-splines surface body. You have to "turn off history" I believe to make this work.

[@cnccarving]

+Patrick Rainsberry thank you.. already found I can import obj format.. when I shift to model from mesh, it converts to solid..

[@PatrickRainsberry]

+cnccarving awesome

[@cnccarving]

im learning this program, because I believe this is the real next big thing.. after autocad.. while autocad wasn't the only one desktop cad, but it was the one that taught so many folks for cad..

[@bensdemosongs]

Sort of unrelated question: Lets say you had a really detailed face mesh that was already fixed up to what you have at 11:20, but you still wanted to implement a sculpted surface like at 15:46 (and the subsequent cut out base). Do you still have to simplify and convert that mesh for Fusion 360, or could you just use the face mesh as a reference for the base, export the two objects and combine them in another mesh program? Point being, keep super detailed mesh, while using Fusion for fabricating the other parts?

[@PatrickRainsberry]

Actually this video is pretty outdated. I should update the description at least... in Fusion 360 CAM you can actually apply tool paths directly to mesh bodies. So the steps of dealing with sculpt surfaces is not even actually necessary anymore

[@bensdemosongs]

@@PatrickRainsberry Okay, thanks for getting back.

[@athom1c]

I just did one of these myself for a class last semester. Used MasterCAM X9 for SolidWorks, which choked on the file 'til I did a little preprocessing with Blender. Just posted some video of the machine in action (kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXOkqKWYp9Nnmsk) and that threw me your link. Cool stuff!