The link that you posted above from autodesk does a pretty good job of explaining this.Ī four axis simultaneous path where the Y has to be moved to hold the tool parallel to the wall IS a swarf path, not a wrapped one. Have you done a solid volumetric compare on that Fusion path to see if it is leaving or gouging material?Īre the edges of the profile you are trying to cut intersecting the centreline themselves or are they offset? It still hasn't been established that the surfaces you are trying to cut are possible to cut with a wrapped toolpath.

Sorry for this becoming a Monday morning rant - need some more coffee before I brighten up:-) It's cheap as chips, so I'm not putting Fusion down - it's just not for us - we need reliability. It's going to push companies like ours towards MasterCAM and Gibbs and they will be left with the smaller shops (though numerous) using Fusion who can tolerate its shortcomings. So the fact that AD is pushing all development in Fusion and seem to forget the Inventor users is a poor strategy in the long run I think. I hate clouds and that's not going to change. If I were using Fusion there's a good chance we would have been screwed and failed to deliver. Those 36 hours of work paid down a full years interest and leasing cost for our Haas ST-30Y. To put things in perspective - we got a rush job where we needed to work all day and all night in order to get the job. I haven't used Fusion much, but I still had four or five occasions when it didn't work - connectivity issues with cloud or some bullshit. The fact that you can't open files directly from a disk in Fusion is absolutely nuts. But we are a business which is growing steadily and we have about a thousand unique parts that are all used in various assemblies and associated drawings, so for the foreseeable future we will try to keep everything within Inventor in order to avoid a revision hell. That being said, we have Fusion and we used it earlier, especially for 3 axis router work. Who knows - maybe one day I can see my tailstock in the simulation as well:-) I just checked out that new feature you mentioned, it's moving in the right direction.

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