Making TOOLPATHS and exporting G-CODES | Fusion 360 | Quick Tip

hi and welcome to Willie's garage in this episode I'm going to show you how I exported codes from fusion 360 and take them into the universal G code Center first off I start by making a simple model I want a square like so and I want to square inside the square like so and make some Philips in the corners inside like so then I'm going to extrude the outer square to 10 millimeters and I'm going to extrude the inner square to 5 in millimeters this will give me a simple model like the one you see here and good for me to show you how I make the J codes in fusion 360 when you are happy with your model and you want to call this on your CNC machine or 3d printer or anything you go to the cam environment in fusion first thing you do is to make a new setup in the setup you tell the program what kind of stock you have or original piece and you tell the program where y-axis set axis and the x axis is and things like this and what kind of cooperation you want to do I'm doing milling in this operation the first thing you see on my model is that my y-axis set axis and x axis is all wrong so I'm going to go in the orientation and select the y-axis and the x-axis first off you want me to select the x-axis so I select one of the the orientations in the x-axis I want that to go this way like so and then it wants me to select the y-axis I can select anything as long as it's oriented the way I want so this is my y-axis when I did that you can see that this changed and got the set axis up and down the x-axis this way and the y axis this way that's just how I like it the origin is where you want your zero point to be I like to have it on the stock box point and maybe take it to one of the corners so you know where Miriam oisin is going to begin this is very important in when you're going to carve that it got the zero point correct so be sure to mark somewhere you can find on your stock piece if you go to the stock banner here you make the stock from solid and here we mark your model this way you see that the stock is as big as your model so this is the easiest way I think okay when they're happy with your setup you check the x axis y axis and the z axis and that you have the zero point on one of the corners or somewhere you know where to put the zero point in the real life we never happy with this you press ok now we're going to make the toolpath in the middle of this model you want to poke it out this hole so you go to the 2d tool path options and you open one to the pocket here you can select your tool I want to make a new tool here I have a flat and new and I have a tool that has eight millimeters in the tip and I press ok now I have a tool okay I have no coolant I disabled that don't here you can change your cutting feed rate that's how fast the tool will go on the surface when it's cutting what you put these two depends on your spindle your machine your stock it depends on everything everything so I'm just going to keep it at thousand millimeters per minute and the same you have air leading and lead out that's when the tool goes into your piece and when the tool goes out of your piece you can't put this to a lower value like 700 700 the next banner here is the geometry here you want to select the part of the model you want to carve so I'm going to poke it out this here we have other options I usually don't use any of these on this simple carving in the next banner you have the different heights and stuff the top of your piece is the blue one you have to feed and reach retract height this is five millimeters over the stock and the other clearance is 15 millimeters all this you can change down here I usually leave this as this for my sins in machine this is okay if you hover over any one of these you get the explanation in a new window the next banner is two passes here you can select the tolerances and I will like to put it on conventional milling here you can activate finishing passes you can start to leave I take that off and I want multiple depths I have a weak spindle on mine so I usually put this on 0.5 millimeters that means it's it goes down 0.5 millimeters each pass yeah here are different options so check them out linking that's the tool will operate between different G codes the ramp is how your tool will go down into your stock into your piece hover over it to see explanations about that I will leave this as is now when I'm happy with all my settings on the tool path I will click OK and fusion will calculate the toolpath here you can see the toolpath is 0.5 millimeters down for each pass and it will go down down down down down yeah all the way down if you think you are happy with this you can go to the simulate option put on the stock and play the simulation when you are happy with your tool path and your simulation and everything you can go on the the to deep pockets here right click and post-process this is how you export to the g-code here you want to be sure to have the right machine or setting I have mine on grbl I have a grbl powered machine from Arduino Uno and here you can choose where to put the file and the file name I like to name it so I know what what the file is pocket I have eight millimeter tool the feed rate is 1000 millimeters per second and the depth is 0.5 millimeters paths per pass so I know it's a pocket operation I know it's it has an eight millimeter tool I know it's ten millimeters per second feed rate and I know it has a 0.5 millimeter depth per pass that's at least how I do it ok when you feel you're finished with this I'll just put it somewhere file that's how you create tool pads in fusion 360 and export the g-code files so you can use them in the universal g-code Center or any other program there are multiple options in this area in the next episode maybe I will go in the universal g-code Center and tell you how to import and set the zero point and things like that have a nice day goodbye [Music]

Channel: WillysGarageNorway

Views: 168,339

Keywords: toolpath, fusion, 360, code, codes, g code, universal, sender, tutorial, how, to, tool, diameter, cutting, feedrate, per, stock, simulation

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Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 12 2018