Fusion 360 and CNC Lathes

[Anonymous]

I have designed a project to be manufactured on a CNC lathe. I have the latest version of 360 and I cannot find any support to set up the tool paths for a lathe. Am I missing something???

Thak you in advance.

Mike

[CGPM]

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No lathe support at this time, and the wrong forum for Cam 360 questions.  They should be at http://camforum.autodesk.com/ 

[Oceanconcepts]

Well, we do have tool path creation and CAM as an integral part of Fusion 360- I for one would be interested in knowing if lathe support is planned. 

[jeff.walters · Accepted solution]

Yes lathe is absolutely planed. But we don’t have a definite timeframe for it yet.

[bespenship]

Thanks guys.

Lathe (turning) support is on our roadmap.  Thanks for letting people know there is a CAM-specific forum - we all work together on the Autodesk side, and we'll grab folks from our CAM team when needed, so no need to be overly concerned about where you post.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all of the help. I did not know about the lathe specific forum but I do now.

Regards,

Mike

[Anonymous]

Please, add Lathe (turning) support.

[curtis.chan]

Hi Aargear,

Totally understandable in regards to Lathe functionality.  One nice feature that is coming out in the November 15th release is the ability to select cylindrical stock, if that could be of value.  We've had lots of request for that as well.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. We wait Lathe (turning) support.

[johnson2423]

Im ready for lathe tool paths please!!!

[griffew]

Turning has been added to Fusion 360 CAM!!

[johnson2423]

I'm inordinately excited about this.

[230roblittle]

ASAP please !

[HughesTooling]

Did you read post #11, turning has been in Fusion for about a year.

Link to Help.

Mark

[230roblittle]

Nice!

[Anonymous]

The Fusion 360 lathe CAM section is beautifully logical in the sequence of operations, and I have modelled some complicated projects. Unfortunately I am running Mach3 Turn I am obliged to use the Generic Fanuc post processor and then play around with the output. Does anyone know of a bespoke post processor for Mach3 Turn, or whether Autodesk will be issuing one any time soon?

[HughesTooling]

I've tried to help a few people customise a post for mach3 turn but it's not been easy. Either they don't come back so you don't know it it's working or they have no idea about G code or mach3 and it's impossible to get it sorted. The problems are mostly to do with arcs and whether the tool is at the front or back. What problems are you having and are you able to correct the code from the fanuc post to show where the problems are.

Have you done a search on the CAM forum, someone did post up a post they were using.

Mark

[Anonymous]

Hi Mark
The problem varies - sometimes the code is good but the tool path image in Mach3 is hopelessly wrong,and it's only by running it that I can see that it's OK. Other times the reverse is true and on some occasions all seems fine and then something untoward happens. In most cases where it fails there are arcs in the cut file, which would appear to support your point. I will visit the CAM site and see what I can unearth. Do yo know if Autodesk are working on the postprocessor list?
Ron
Packman Lucas

[HughesTooling]

The problem seems to be mach or perhaps just the people trying to set it up have not looked at how other controls work. I have 2 lathes one with a Fanuc control and one with a cheap Chinese Fanuc clone both have the tool nearest the operator. In this configuration a lot of the mach3 people have it set up so X is minus, this seems wrong. On my machines I just program a diameter say 30mm I don't program -30mm. Having the X reversed also reverses arc direction so it gets even more confusing.

If you can hand code a simple part then it is easy enough to modify the post to match but just throwing code into the machine and seeing what happens is quite a challenge if you can't manually program G code and modify posts.

Mark