I have been able to get a somewhat useable scan and I have been doing some sketching this morning. I plan to try and cut what I have drawn today and mock a few things up. Here is what I have done so far.
I will post more pictures of the mock up to show accuracy.
So now that I have the scale set correctly everything cut perfectly. Here is the mock up. The actual plates will be .25" thick steel and the support brace will be tube steel.
Nice. Looks like weāre both working on the same kind of project.
Iām curious how you made out with your workflow since this topic.
I also have a CNC plasma and want to be able to do the exact same thing as youāre discussing in this topic.
Iām eager to hear how youāve progressed on your workflow since September.
Also @Rusty I am very interested how you made out too.
POP2 is lightyears beyond POP in terms of accuracy and how it handles long, straight-ish objects. Having the accelerometers makes things come out a lot better.
Workflow is essentially unmodified, though for small enough objects Iāve found myself using the .OBJ directly in Inventor. Thatās only going to work well with relatively simple and small projects, though- thereās a lot of polys there, and that clogs things up.
Iāve been working on the next generation of stamping dies for a body panel that I need made, but Iāve been having some issues with the mill. I think thereās a loose connection somewhere along the line in my Z-axis limit switch, which is causing me to fault out every time I try and take a deep bite of the steel. Itās really annoying and I havenāt had time to sort it out yet.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Iām enjoying it so far. all the different softwares a little overwhelming to learn at once but Iām slowly powering through it.
Iām hoping to develop some decent workflow for Fusion 360. Itās what I use already to do all my programming for my CNC plasma. Supposably Autodesk took some cues from inventor when they started making Fusion 360.
Langmuir systems came out with a small hobbyist CNC mill. Itās pretty cool I would like to maybe get one one day but thereās a few other tools I need to get first.
https://www.langmuirsystems.com/mr1
Langmuir MR 1 CNC mill spec sheet
Likely not big enough for most body panels dies.
Iām pretty sure fusion imports in meters, you can also scale under the modify menu if you have a known value
Fusion should be unit agnostic. If thereās no unit specified in the file youāre importing, Iām pretty sure it will assume that itās whatever you currently have set for that document. (Thatās what Inventor does, at least.)
The dies Iām making are quite small- I only have a 20 ton press at home. Basically Iāve got a rectangular panel with 5 dimples in it, and the dies are just to make the dimple.
The AutoCAD DWG files I import default to Metric, but millimeters, not meters.
I honestly donāt know about Fusion360, but they are from the same company.
