Hi, I come from a turning background and am interested in the milling CAM on fusion. I’ve drawn up a turning job with some features to be milled, and when I finish the turning CAM and create a milling setup, I can’t continue machining from the previous op. Should I be using mill-turn instead, or is there a way of using the turned part as stock for the milling? Or would it be better to draw the turned part separately, then use it as stock for the milling?
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This might be a remedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toDzfXcGo8&t=14s
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Great share, thanks Stephen!
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Brilliant, thanks. I have watched some of the videos on that channel, but I didn’t reach episode 114 for sure!
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You have to keep an eye on the files size doing it that way, if its to big it will increase toolpath generation time by a lot
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I also come from a turning background. I made internal rotating parts for aircraft engines, We only put the parts on a milling machine to mill holes since all of our vertical laths were 2 axis machines.
We did have a couple dozen Mazak slant bed lathes (AKA machining centers) which were able to turn, mill, & drill. Though the engineers at GE were too stupid to use machines to what they were capable of doing in this case.
If your part is the same me as shown Stephen Hardwin’s video, then that part can be made on a 5 axis milling machine with an axis for the tilt of the spingel & an axis for a indexable table or 4th axis turning fixture mount of the bed of the milling machine.
Personally I prefer first option if you ask me, I rather have a 5 or 6 axis milling machine, but either option are good & you will only have to program in the milling mode.