Does fusion 360 support a rotating head cnc machine?

[Anonymous]

I am looking at buying a CNC machine for woodworking, and in addition to normal x,y, z movement, the cutting head can rotate from -90 to +90 degrees only along the y axis.  So it can carve designs in a door blank and the rotate one way to cut out and drill for the hinges and then rotate the other way to cut out the latch mechanism.  Does Fusion 360 support tool path generation for this type of machine?

Thanks

[Steinwerks]

Yes, the machine configuration is set up in the post-processor. Autodesk has a head style 5-axis router at their Pier 9 facility as well:

https://www.autodesk.com/pier-9/workshop/machines-tools/cnc

[cj.abraham]

@Anonymous Yes, Fusion does support head-rotating machines. This is all done in the post.

Note that at this time, Fusion does not have workplane linking, so transitioning between angles would need to be controlled in the post. With some clever coding in the newWorkPlane function, the post will automatically create safe positioning between orientations.

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

Manufacturer of the machine suggests using Siemens NX 11.  Writing a post to support the machine is probably beyond me right now.