Is there a better way?

[Anonymous]

my company has access to f360.  I am attempting to cut a radius in a series of parts.  I have all of the radiuses lined up, and they are all the same.  Is there any way to bridge the radiuses so that it doesnt cut just one part at a time? 

[Rob_Lockwood]

make a surface that extends across all of the rads and use that to define your model for those operations, rather than the models themselves..

[Anonymous]

I have given that some thought, but i haven't a clue on how to create a surface to do that, especially in Inventor assembly mode, where i do most of my cam work (all but 3d), but especially in fusion 360.  Ill play around with it, but any help would be appreciated.

[Steinwerks]

frank@automationplus wrote:
I have given that some thought, but i haven't a clue on how to create a surface to do that, especially in Inventor assembly mode, where i do most of my cam work (all but 3d), but especially in fusion 360.  Ill play around with it, but any help would be appreciated.

Go into Patch mode, under Create, select Extrude, and extrude your first part's right edge out to the far right edge of your last part. It should create a new body that you can hide for your other operations. Simple and fast.

See the bodies lightbulbs on the left.

[scottmoyse]

frank@automationplus wrote:
I have given that some thought, but i haven't a clue on how to create a surface to do that, especially in Inventor assembly mode, where i do most of my cam work (all but 3d), but especially in fusion 360.  Ill play around with it, but any help would be appreciated.

Yeah that would be because the Inventor Assembly mode sucks for CAM related model changes. Solidworks is much better in that area. I'd love to be able to say that the Inventor team are working on rectifying that, but I don't think they are. Maybe the CAM team have other plans?

[Steinwerks]

Can't believe I never even got an acknowledgement...  :-X

[scottmoyse]

N. Stein wrote:
Can't believe I never even got an acknowledgement...  :-X

The OP hasn't replied since you posted that. Your solution for F360 is exactly how it should be done.

[Steinwerks]

scottmoyse wrote:
The OP hasn't replied since you posted that. Your solution for F360 is exactly how it should be done.

I just hate when OPs disappear! No good feedback. Happens on Practical Machinist as well sometimes and then no one knows how operations turned out.

I couldn't think of a better way to do what was asked. Glad to see someone seconds the method, as I want to know when there are better alternatives, too!

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

Since the fragment extension distance doesn't work there is no other way indeed.

Also something funny with the steep area's when you select another part like I did in the attached part.

[Steinwerks]

Laurens-3DTechDraw wrote:
Since the fragment extension distance doesn't work there is no other way indeed. Also something funny with the steep area's when you select another part like I did in the attached part.

Thinking of getting off of SW or something?  😉

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

Yes,
Hardcore HSMWorks user here, so I usually have some tricks up my sleeve. 😉

[Steinwerks]

I did get the extension to work, but one would have to create extra geometry to keep the path contained between parts with extra avoid surfaces. I think the way I did it is still easiest.

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

N. Stein wrote:
I did get the extension to work, but one would have to create extra geometry to keep the path contained between parts with extra avoid surfaces. I think the way I did it is still easiest.

Actually when you could make the extension long enough it would just continue into the next part. You could make a sketch to contain it but wouldn't be necessary I guess.

[mfeathers]

While not exactly the same N.Stein... your solution did help give me a way to clean up some of my tool paths on an object I was working on in Inventor.

Where I was previously doing something like 3 different tool paths (with different parameters throughout), I now have 1 clean tool path that accomplishes the same thing by using a modified copy of the original solid.

[Steinwerks]

mfeathers wrote:
While not exactly the same N.Stein... your solution did help give me a way to clean up some of my tool paths on an object I was working on in Inventor. Where I was previously doing something like 3 different tool paths (with different parameters throughout), I now have 1 clean tool path that accomplishes the same thing by using a modified copy of the original solid.

Cool! Glad something I did helped you!

[Steinwerks]

Laurens-3DTechDraw wrote:
Actually when you could make the extension long enough it would just continue into the next part. You could make a sketch to contain it but wouldn't be necessary I guess.

Yes that's what he wanted in the first place, I thought that's what we were talking about.

Here's what I got, and after adding the avoid faces of the other three parts. It "works" but you can see how it spills over outside the parts and why I said one would have to contain it somehow. Might as well extrude the first part and then hide it afterwards.

If there are parameters to keep it in line, do share! 😄

[Anonymous]

N. Stein wrote:

scottmoyse wrote: The OP hasn't replied since you posted that. Your solution for F360 is exactly how it should be done. I just hate when OPs disappear! No good feedback. Happens on Practical Machinist as well sometimes and then no one knows how operations turned out. I couldn't think of a better way to do what was asked. Glad to see someone seconds the method, as I want to know when there are better alternatives, too!

Thanks, It does work. 

My bad for the DELAYED responce.  Kinda been a little busy, and I dont always have time to jump on here. 

I was just thinkin that there was a box that i could click to make it bridge the parts.  just wishfull thinkin.

[Steinwerks]

frank@automationplus wrote:
Thanks, It does work.

You're welcome! I'm glad to help any way I can. I still feel I'm pretty green to HSM* but I like to contribute when I can, and I feel I'm one of the longer Fusion CAM users here. I don't go to the Fusion forums, as they're horrible to navigate.

My bad for the DELAYED responce.  Kinda been a little busy, and I dont always have time to jump on here.

Not a big deal honestly. I just spend a lot of time on here and Practical Machinist, including a lot of off time (I did the example at home) and so I have a skewed sense of reply time.

I was just thinkin that there was a box that i could click to make it bridge the parts.  just wishfull thinkin.

I can think of a TON of things I wish I had a box for!  ;D