Using a slitting saw with Fusion to make cooling fins.
This is a townpumpcnc project to help out a guy making caving lights for his friends.
01. Fusion 360 CAD design of aluminum stock. https://youtu.be/zCzrNISQKH4
02. Stock set up and WCS https://youtu.be/6UgqQSq2exA
03. Facing operation https://youtu.be/2v2rM8oHAFc
04. 2d Profile https://youtu.be/85JxO1CUink
05. Re-re-re-re-re-installing post processor https://youtu.be/ejjXu_SyuNw
06. 5 axis positioning https://youtu.be/lVisKaMM38g
07. 2d Adaptive Roughing https://youtu.be/LFM4jtLIWj0
08. 2d Profile https://youtu.be/sNzjytq6tU8
09. 2d Pocket for O-rings https://youtu.be/ZrIH9TasOlU
10. 2d Contour slitting saw https://youtu.be/tbiZaSW1BSc
11. 2d Chamfer https://youtu.be/A2gI-pdfwN8
12. Multiple WCS different parts at the same time https://youtu.be/JVgkXL1-1FA
This is a townpumpcnc project to help out a guy making caving lights for his friends.
01. Fusion 360 CAD design of aluminum stock. https://youtu.be/zCzrNISQKH4
02. Stock set up and WCS https://youtu.be/6UgqQSq2exA
03. Facing operation https://youtu.be/2v2rM8oHAFc
04. 2d Profile https://youtu.be/85JxO1CUink
05. Re-re-re-re-re-installing post processor https://youtu.be/ejjXu_SyuNw
06. 5 axis positioning https://youtu.be/lVisKaMM38g
07. 2d Adaptive Roughing https://youtu.be/LFM4jtLIWj0
08. 2d Profile https://youtu.be/sNzjytq6tU8
09. 2d Pocket for O-rings https://youtu.be/ZrIH9TasOlU
10. 2d Contour slitting saw https://youtu.be/tbiZaSW1BSc
11. 2d Chamfer https://youtu.be/A2gI-pdfwN8
12. Multiple WCS different parts at the same time https://youtu.be/JVgkXL1-1FA
Thank you sir for info and tips
Perfect that's about as long as I concentrate
To keep it from jumping back up when it gets to the backside of the part, you can make a sketch to link up the two slots and use that as your contour path. Nerdly uses this workaround to get cleaner simultaneous 5-axis paths. Plenty of CAM systems require a similar workaround.
Ye ole skookum
Watching the slitting saw fly around the material in the main video was a pucker moment for sure lol
Okay, you want to get rid of the verticals? Easy, but it's not where you expect it to be. Set your lead-ins to be whatever you like, BUT set your feed height (on the heights tab) to be some ridiculously small number. When I'm doing an operation like this and I want to plunge straight down then cut in from the side, I set the feed height to be something like .01" above the start of the cut. That will rapid your plunge to that Z0.01, and then you'll go to whatever lead-in speed you've specified in the tool path.
I haven't done it yet. (Just barely installed fusion on the new confusior). I think if you look at the lead in and out moves is where you can (possibly) eliminate those vertical arcs in the leads. That's usually where it would be in other software's. I think Fusion puts those arrows where the centerline of the tool path would be. So that's why with your saw they are so far away from the part. Due to the large diameter of the tool. I will know better when I actually do something with it. They/we are working on a post for the Mazak right now.
I have no clue from machining, but you mention that you want to eliminate the "plunge moves". Maybe it moves to the retract height and maybe it can be modified to be at the same height as the pass?
Nice fins, I hate slitting saws though. Probably as I used to use crappy old ones on really clapped out Bridgeports and the like