I am an Industrial designer, business owner, AR8 owner, Fusion subscriber with over 30 years experience designing CNC produced products and I am seriously disappointed with the Axiom's complete abdication of their responsibility to the customer on several fronts but the lack of support for post processors being the most egregious. Even two critical gcode commands from the software they support are ignored.
So when I realized that the machine was ignoring the feed rate commands ("F" code) in my G-Code it was ME that had to route out the problem by Googling the controller and through an obscure post found out that the "F" commands are ignored in the controller. As a result I had months of my machine slamming around the corners of 12 mm pockets when I had set it at 10 IPM. It was a quick fix to go in and turn it on but that fact was not in the user manual that they provide. Which, BTW, if you search on line for RichAuto 11 you can see that they have merely placed their name in the generic one coming from the controller manufacturer.
They also neglect to tell you that there is not spindle speed control ("S" codes in G-Code) so toss out your CNC Wizard subscription of $65 because there is no way that your extremely intelligent software is going to build corner slowing or curve reduction into your gcode since the machine is not even wired to accept those commands. Instead it is YOU that has to stand there and wait for tool paths to change so that YOU can adjust the speed by hand on a knob on the front of the controller box. Now THAT"S automation for you! Um, BTW you just lost 1/3 of the C in your "Computer-Numerical-Control".
So now to the post processor issue to which I have, and I ask your pardon, added my own Pre-processed gripe, hehe! On the Axiom forums the boys at Axiom are quite clear that to have a post processor for Fusion 360 it is Autodesk that has to belly up to the bar and create one. I don't know how that would happen unless they also had a machine to test it on but to end the passing the buck I'll offer a plan. You guys at Autodesk work with me and I will run processor output on my machine and test. If we get it to work then maybe you give me a lifetime subscription to Fusion 360 ( I am using it for commercial purposes but also teach it at a local Maker Lab, so I could be thought of as promoting it). Or something equivalent.
My company probably uses more of the high end expectation range of what this machine is capable of. But in that quest it is incumbent on the powers that be that there are open channels for the users between various machine and the great concept of collaborative software embodied in Fusion 360. The way it is now its easier to build your own machine than write a postprocessor. Something the guys at Axiom might keep in mind.
My 2c.
