making and machining a cone model\cam

[tmodcustoms]

I am trying to make a cone, 45 degree angle, 6in top diameter, that I cn macnhine into a block of aluminum. I can draw a cone by drawing then using revolve or even my playing with the filet on a cylender however I am almost positive what I am doing is incorrect bc I can't select it to add tool paths to in CAM . Any help is  much appreciated. 

[TrippyLighting]

Please share your design by exporting it to .f3d and attaching it to your next post.

I've never been very good a mind reading or crystalball magic 😉

[tmodcustoms]

HAHA, I hear ya but I only have a box, I want to put a cone in the box, to machine a cone into it, but I have no idea how to draw it up. I did a couple the other way by adapting a filetand starting withthe profile and revolving it but I dont think it's the way to go for something  I want to be abe to machine out with CAM. 

Heres a link, not very impressive. . 

http://a360.co/1XT8NlW

[TrippyLighting]

I suggest you do yourself a favor and start watching the tutorials in the Learn section 😉

[tmodcustoms]

link to my cone, its pretty sad. looks likea cone but i dunno how to get close to a toolpath for it..

http://a360.co/1szpOFw

[tmodcustoms]

I believe I did this one with the loft tool but Its backwards from what Im actualy trying to do, I'm trying to cut  cone into a square or cylendrical piece of aluminum.  I tried to add a hole to the top of the cone to make it hollow , a cone shaped hole that is, to make it cone shaped but I'm not having much luck.

http://a360.co/1YXRgY3

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

As Trippy suggests do some of the tutorials as this is pretty basic.

First draw your stock block, make it symetrical about the origin then start a sketch on the midplane and draw a triangle.

Then use revolve cut.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

Here's a link to the help on revolve.

Mark

[tmodcustoms]

Thank you buddy, I realy appreciate it, I wasn't sure which way to go about it, I know theres mulitple ways but that's exactly what I was loking for, i wan tto go al the way thru the block, So there is a hole in the bottom, you could see thru it, but I addded a hole a couple different ways and it cut out part of the cone, I think I can probably adjust the angle to get  a hole . Thanks a bunch my friend! 

thanks for the links as wel, I've watched a bunch of those vids but I'm always happy to learn more.

[tmodcustoms]

I was having a hard time drawing on the midplane, I haven't figured out how to do that really, I did it a couple times then I couldn't do it again. But I did get the cone figured out, I drew a circle on the box, extruded it and it gave me an option for angle of the extrusion.  That seemed like it was too easy, no revolving, no midplane, I didnt think it was going to work, but I was having trouble with sketchin on the midplane. I did it jsut like this and it worked, it allows me to ajust the angle of the cone as well. I don't know if there is somethign else I shold be doing but I posted it and it turned out great on the mill. ( I'm still finding the right feeds \ speeds for this new EM so it was a little slow but it took an hour to make this cone, I think cones in general take a long time, but I'm happy with the results.)

Thank you guys, I couldn't have done it without all your help, much appreciated.  

http://a360.co/1Y3lASI

[Anonymous]

Hi guys,

What I don't see resolved is what operation to use to machine the cam. I have a 5 axis, but swarf keeps not working when I try to do a cone which is a fully revolved surface.

Daniel

[TheCADWhisperer]

@Anonymous 

You have replied to an old thread.

You have replied to a thread that was marked as solved.

I suspect you would get a better response over here

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-manufacture/bd-p/2070

and include your actual *.f3d file.