I'd never heard of it until I came here (which I rarely do) and it looks surprisingly EXCELLENT.
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I'd never heard of it until I came here (which I rarely do) and it looks surprisingly EXCELLENT.
All this data is way out of date and I would seriously question the source. Fusion was good in 2021. Free for hobby guys back then, and I was getting 4th axis for free as part of the standard price....
Fusion is a joke. If you want 4th axes you will be paying $2K+ a year and then if your like me and leave the platform, you have to recam everything.
The best value cam by a country mile is...
I always model in Shark and then CAM in Fusion. But if I ever need to add some geometry for machining, in DESIGN the model defaults to inch even though I have mm set as default. I export from Shark...
This all depends what you want and what you want to do.
Dolphin mill and lathe are both excellent CAM programs. Even the Hecks 3D is good (although my biggest gripe is it doesn't support adaptive...
I love shark. Such cool software.
In my opinion, the graphics card is the most important consideration for fusion.
100%
This is not what V-Carve is about. Blender is another great program for this.
When's your new version releasing? You need adaptive toolpaths!!!
Fusion is killing everyone. Depending on what you are doing Dolphin is excellent software.
You can save it to whatever you want. In your post change
FILE_EXTENSION = " "
As Gerry said, it's pixel based so that will never change. I have played with resolutions etc and on machining steel 200mm x 200mm you are more likely to get error from your machine than the...
Nothing beats Fusion, but I would strongly suggest DolphinCAM Pro is not only cheaper, it's way more advanced.
In relation to Vectric, pull the vectors of in your cad, Save them to dwg/dwf file...
Yes. Email them!
[email protected]
BTW. There is a charge for transferring your licence
Works well. Cheers
Fark. But I reckon $1000 for 3 years is excellent value. I started a thread sometime ago about Fusion 360 because this was expected....
I didn't see that. I thought the only change in CAM was no rapids?
Wrapping on Vcarve also has a way to go. Fusion 360 indexing is great, but the rotary wrapping is just as great. You can wrap...
https://youtu.be/SlnEThQ4HR8
kstrauss, I don't/wouldn't use Vectric or Autodesk for CAD but if VCarve added proper 4th axis indexing/machining and adaptive toolpaths then I would be happy to use it, Until then no truer word has...
Might be well documented but why waste money on junk in the first place?? To make junk into something decent you will spend more money than just going and buying something decent in the first place....
Hi dharmic, that is correct, so all three solutions you mention work. The issue is when the rotary toolpaths follow each other they don't reset the WCS. I've been trying to get around this in the...
Hi Roger,
I use Linuxcnc, the post code in fusion for bypassing unwind is -
writeBlock(
gMotionModal.format(0),
conditional(abcFormat.format(abc.x) == 0, "G10 L20 P#5220 A[#5423 MOD 360]")
);...
Yeah, thanks schneik. I've been playing with this for a while now, and although I've had to do quite a bit of fiddling with my post to stop unwinds etc, the rotary tool path on both horizontal and...
Cheap! However, I have noticed their aluminium of 6060 is much more "doey" than from Action... which is more "crisp". I find Capral tends to cling and clot more both on the cold saw and end mills.
...
It's a good question. And maybe this will come sooner than later with an ever shrinking marketplace.
Trouble is mastercam doesn't even compete with $70 per month.
Yeap, that's sort of my issue too. Once you go fusion toolpaths, your fusion forever with their fd3 format.
And something else...
Despite all my resistance, this week I finally surrendered and moved my lathe CAM from Dolphin to Fusion. I had to mess with the post for a day, but now that's sorted, I'm impressed.
I guess due...
Ok, so I just checked this and it will move everything to the plane, but it wont flatten the lines to the same plane. To flatten the lines you need to use Project Curve to Plane. Select XY plane,...
You have a couple of options. You can select snap to "plane only" in snaps before you draw... or if you have already drawn things then select all your 2D lines with the align tool (select Centers...
No problem Steve. Hope it helps.
BTW Always use adaptive strategies and run your cutter at full Vf with 25% of width (optimum load) at depth = to width of cutter... and you'll be cutting chips...