Our LATEST Fusion 360 CAM Tips & Tricks!

[@TJ4A9]

All of these little Knick knacks things over the years that you have been teaching have been ridiculously helpful for furthering my career down here in Louisiana. Because of your videos, I’ve been able to set myself up as one of the top programmers in my area and I’m constantly being recruited to help other shops with programming. Thanks a ton John, I really appreciate your videos!

[@PM.al.whatmough]

@john Teaser alert, you are a few weeks early on this :-) We have a QoL of Life Update of Fusion planned for the next Fusion Update :-). All that said, you have highlighted some great examples here :-)

[@jenspetersen5865]

Far and away the most important improvement that you could make is in tool management - so that Fusion controls ex. a Haas mill. A tool that is numbered #41 in Fusion should be possible to insert in pocket 9 of the Tool Changer and Fusion should be able to tell Haas that this is a 5 flute end mill that is roughly 140mm long in the holder, has 10 mm diameter, 20mm flutes.... so you load tools, probe and run, instead of manually entering duplicate tool data in the Haas with time consumption and risk of errors. Another thing is your setup sheets - there really should be a highlight error that you are using two different tools #8 in your program.

[@Badge124]

Good tips. Regarding the parallel that you glue on, have you measured the thickness of the glue? Depending on the part requirements, you may not tolerate the 1/2 to 2 thou thickness.

[@youmakerandom6183]

I am extremely thankful for the cam videos! I am having trouble making a set of soft jaws. I have 2-2.75” round stock for 2 different parts on a 6” vise and I am trying to make a .25” hole on the fixed jaw a single work offset point for both parts.

[@LastBastionLabs]

Great video, thank you for taking the time to share your tip and tricks!

[@neznamkaj]

Is it possible to make tool holder from CAD, and not to define it manually, because it is slower + it doesn't have options to put a radius. And it would be nice to have an option to define shell mill geometry because that rest material it leaves when shell mill is angled.

[@markissboi3583]

Cant wait till you people organize another special build from parts made from individuals all over . I'm still amazed by that underground NY guys octopus lamp that moved awesome build that one . want more alike

[@zunuf]

If you have to use the 2D contour facing method, you can set negative radial stock to leave to make sure you don't get an extra bump at the starting edge. This is especially relevant if you use a bullnose end mill.

[@ScroungerLee]

Thanks again. It seems like some of these are undocumented, or I’m not reading every word i about every release as thoroughly as I thought! For example dragging a tool from one operation to another. Have you come up with some of these by experimentation, or maybe contacts within auto desk? Either way thank you so much for sharing

[@aleestvid]

Great info, i'd like to see an example with the knives you build. Also it might be good to see it implemented in the kern machine. 😊

[@nikolaiownz]

As someone who just got hes first 5 axis. I live thoes Tool orientation updates. ☝️☝️☝️☝️👌👌

[@LuweZ]

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

[@TheWidgetWorks]

One more is when in simulation if you click and drag (scrub) diagonally it increases(down) or decreases(up) the sensitivity.

[@tacitus101010]

That hair really suits you sir

[@zenplymouth]

how does it compare to powermill ?

[@msdorse]

thank you very very very much, you help me a lot

[@emannuellovera]

thank u helped me a lot

[@7alfatech860]

Thanks for sharing these tips

[@BGraves]

i think your chapters are messed up. You don't have to drag and drop the tool onto the other tool, just the operation. Anyone know how to renumber tools starting at 1 if your tool is also used in another setup? For example, I don't want my tool numbers of the machining of the actual part be affected by the tool number assignment created by the machining of the fixture.

[@DM-qm5sc]

Are you also the AMMO NYC channel? Or do you have a twin?

[@Pure105]

Thanks John.

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

Good stuff!

[@tedanderson463]

Bro when I worked at Mrd we had a guy that was from back east where You are and they ran tests on different ways to machine key ways and slots with end mills and a series of plunge cuts with a shortly coupled to flute or three flute end Mill plunging full depth and stepping over a 1/4 of an end Mill at a time prove to be absolutely amazing for speed think how efficient that animal is when it's plunging full diameter think about it it's 100% efficiency because it's not an interrupted cut it's just like a drill that's why I drill is such a highly productive tool it's always cutting anyway trying to run some tests on slots you plunge cut and step over almost half the end Mill diameter maybe 1/3 the end Mill diameter there's not such a worry about chip evacuation because you're in there and out of there I'm talking plunge full depth come get up out of there stepping over 1/3 of the diameter cut right back down through there I'm here to tell you you could probably do it with high speed CNC milling mode and then you get the slot cut extremely fast and you're not wedging the sides of those teeth into the cut the way you do on conventional milling on that particular application that I was watching 5 years ago where the end Milll was traversing in a kind of an oval shape and cutting on the sides of the end Mill that is so much heat built up that is so much rubbing and wear and tear on that end Mill but if you keep making plunge cuts full depth using the end of the end Mill it works so efficiently. So very very efficiently cuz you going to maintain better tool life yes it is an interrupted cut if you only step over a third of the diameter of the animal each time but the way that chip is being cut this is less horsepower and it's much more rigid. And the end Mill gets a chance to cool off a little bit get it with some coolant and you hardly have any heat built up. And for the two finish cuts that's textbook simplicity climb mill down one side and climb mill up the other you know how climbmilling saves on tool life cuz the tooth is never rubbing it's taking a full bite initially our supervisor loved it

[@GENcELL2014]

facing is kind of weird in the way it doesn't follow boundaries all that well, 2d contour gives a lot more control.

[@Thewaldo12345]

If they would just give me first and last depth of cut on lathe threading that would be great.

[@zajawamotocykle9256]

Why no plunge milliing operation... adding point is too long

[@ravshankukiev7429]

Да я наблюдаю за вашей работы все классно. Я тоже пробую на Fusion 360 но не как не получается Когда следуют Fusion 360 на русском языке? Вот это меня тормозит очень

[@tartaarsausje]

If it weren't for you, I don't know what to do, I don't want to spend money on it