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So I was planning for more than a year to implement a fusion 360 script to help automate a new manufacturing process I am working with. There are hundreds of toolpath operations that need to be created for a single part, so making them manually is impractical, but it is highly amenable to automation.
I have been advancing the project, but completely run aground when I discovered the CAM api has apparently not changes since 2016! It still has only very rudimentary functionality, and cannot be used to create toolpaths like the user can, for instance. Why not expose this?
The plugin I am trying to write first slices an object into layers that can be manufactured through 3d milling, then slices the surface of the model at the layer tops, then needs to input these surfaces into the cam toolpaths. There are sometimes quite thin layers, so there end up being hundreds of toolpaths for a complex or highly detailed part, with as many toolchanges. Totally impracticaly to do it manually.
Solved! Go to Solution.