I would be willing to pitch in some cash.
#Fusion 360 forum how to
If it was a matter of $ to get it done and Axiom doesn't see the value in it, once we've identified HOW to get it done, perhaps a kickstarter campaign could generate the funds needed. Regardless, I sniffed through some of the post processing files and they are a bit complex - there's a good bit of time involved with creating those (I'm NOT volunteering). I can imagine that AutoDesk has a formula of their marketing benefit to having a post processor available for the most popular machines and charging to develop one for the lesser popular machines. In the example above where there is a Laguna post processor - it's also possible that AutoDesk charges to develop a post processor for a manufacturer. And where are these files? The cloud? Who owns that? Good news is that there may be better posts available, bad news is everyone will be paying on a subscription basis, and should you let your subscription expire, you will not be able to open files created previously. Eventually when Autodesk has bought up and killed off the competition there ill be good and bad news. Its a no win for anyone that distributes the product.
#Fusion 360 forum free
The product is free for most in the beginning, so even Autodesk does little to provide post processors for each and every brand. Since Fusion 360 is free to most users in the beginning, there is no markup for the mfgr, that means that if they were to provide training, support or produce post processors, there can never be a gain for them, only cost or loss. That said, Autodesk has placed many CNC mfgr's like Axiom in a precarious position by providing a free product in the hopes of huge gains in market share. I agree with the above assessments of the 2 programs (Autodesk vs. I feel like Cap't Obvious here, but will toss in a couple cents worth. This started because I just wanted to print some spiffy clock hands on the 3d printer at my local maker space. It looks like fusion can replace aspire after getting over a pretty good sized learning curve. I can see why Axiom doesn't want to talk about it, the program is vastly different than vcarve. You should view this video between part 1 and part 2 - Fusion 360 - Beginner! How To Pan, Zoom, Rotate & Navigate, that will show you how to get around on the screen.
Anyway, I got through it all and am getting comfortable with just operating the program. I spent probably around 12 hours on these videos, not because of what Lars was doing in the videos, but what he didn't cover, like how to move stuff around on the screen, what a capture position does, what all the constraints do, why I kept getting constraint errors etc. Then I started with the Lars Christensen Fusion 360 Tutorial for Absolute Beginners Part 1,2,3. That was helpful and gave me a paradigm of what was going on in fusion. Well, I spent some time reading about parametric modeling. At this point, you should really be talking about an industrial machine though but I've seen router tables with slow enough spindles and very good rigidity doing steel with limited success. As a machine gets more rigid, the spindle HP goes up, and the machine weight goes up you can machine soft metals faster, eventually approaching the limit of carbide tools, and perhaps even do some harder metals like softer steels. Go with the Fusion, when you get over the $100K threshold it will still cost you less then Aspire because you'll be machining so much faster with the better CAM.Īs for aluminum, even the Shapoko, which is a much lower end machine, can do aluminum when you use proper settings for feed and speed as well as toolpaths. Aspire has the same poor and limited CAM as all their other packages, it lacks many features including climb/conventional milling settings that actually work properly besides rest machining and trochoidal toolpaths.
To do fancy and controlled work you are far better off with Fusion (free), Solidworks (expensive), or another 3D CAD program and a good CAM package (included in Fusion).
Fusion is a parametric solid modeling program, Aspire is not.
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