This thread which came and went recently prompted me to revisit Autodesk Fusion 360 again. It turns out I got 2 pleasant surprises. One, they have released turning cam in Fusion! And secondly, it is now free for enthusiast use. To purchase it for commercial use for small business it is something like $300/yr. This seems very reasonable considering I pay that for my Geomagic maintenance. The CAM that is integrated is from HSM Works (which Autodesk purchased a while back). I have to say it is quite a powerful CAM package.
I have just designed and turned two parts in Fusion one as an imported model (.stp file format) from Geomagic and one usingFusion 360 CAD directly and with both I used the turning CAM functionality. I am really impressed and pleased with the results. I am using a beta post for the Tormach (PathPilot driven) slant-bed lathe and it is quite close to what I need. I had to modify the post to get the tool change syntax to my liking and there are some features that need to tweaked (threading for one), but all-in-all quite nice and got me a bunch of useful code. Even if you aren’t a fan of online software (I am not) I suggest you sign up and check it out. If nothing else other than the use of the CAM software to process parts it is quite nice. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
