topic How to mill gridlines with a V-bit? in Fusion Support Forum

How to mill gridlines with a V-bit?

sstephan_h — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:59:32 GMT

Hello community,

I have designed gridlines (see photo) which I want to mill into my spoilboard using a 90° V-bit at 0.5 mm depth (maybe 1 mm, but I guess that doesn’t matter much).

My idea was simple:

Take the sketch → generate the manufacturing model (this part works fine).
Then I selected Engrave, set the depth to -0.5 mm from the surface → also works in principle.

Problem:
When I select all lines, Fusion only generates a toolpath around the outer boundary. The inner horizontal and vertical gridlines are ignored, even though I have them selected.

I can’t find a solution – it seems Fusion just doesn’t want to generate a toolpath for the internal lines.

Any advice how to get Fusion to mill all the gridlines with a V-bit?

Thanks in advance!

Stephan

Re: How to mill gridlines with a V-bit?

TheCADWhisperer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:18:02 GMT

@sstephan_h

It probably would have been more appropriate to post your question over here...

Fusion Manufacture Forum - Autodesk Community

Re: How to mill gridlines with a V-bit?

Warmingup1953 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:02:30 GMT

You can create Patterns in the CAM environment. A simple sketch with just the first X and the first Y paths will suffice, although I would probably suggest 2 U-shaped paths to avoid backtracking

(view in My Videos)

Re: How to mill gridlines with a V-bit?

Warmingup1953 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:42:37 GMT

This is better with U-Shaped paths:

(view in My Videos)

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sstephan_h — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:08:13 GMT

I moved to the manufacturing section

Thank you very much! 🙂