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Transcript
00:02
Use tool path simulation.
00:05
After completing this video, you'll be able to,
00:07
you simulate to validate tool paths
00:12
in fusion 360. Let's get started with the supply data set cam lathe simulation.
00:17
Inside this data set. We have a handful of operations that we want to take a look at.
00:21
We have our profile, roughing, finishing a grooving a Cher
00:25
tool path and finally a threading tool path,
00:28
each of these can be seen on screen by the section preview
00:33
and we can also turn on display in process stock.
00:37
One thing that doesn't display with impro
00:39
stock or this preview is going to be a threading tool path.
00:42
We also don't get a good idea in terms of the direction of the orientation,
00:47
the tool is moving.
00:48
In some cases we are able to see this.
00:50
But in other cases,
00:51
it might be a little bit difficult to identify that the
00:54
tool is moving in one direction rather than the other.
00:58
So to validate this, we want to select our entire setup,
01:01
go to actions and select simulate
01:04
when we select simulate, I'm gonna slow the speed down a little bit
01:08
but note that we can hold down the left mouse button and manually drag through.
01:12
We can select positions at the very bottom of the screen.
01:15
And we can also identify when different operations are happening
01:18
or we can select play to play through.
01:21
You can speed up or slow it down at any point in time.
01:24
And you can also use the options to jump to the next operation. For example.
01:28
Now I'm gonna slow it down and I'm gonna play through the champ for operation.
01:34
And we can see that the champers were displayed in red and
01:36
this is because the chaffer was not on the physical model.
01:41
The chaffer was added after the fact and that means
01:43
that it believes that there's too much stock that's been removed
01:47
when we're looking at stock comparison,
01:50
anything that's green matches the digital model,
01:53
anything that's blue still has stock left over and anything that displays
01:56
as red means that more stock than the digital model was removed.
02:00
As we take a look at this,
02:02
you can see that looks like the physical threads that we were expecting.
02:05
And this means that everything does appear to work properly,
02:09
even though the threads are displayed in red.
02:11
It does not necessarily mean that our tool paths have failed.
02:15
As we take a look at the simulate dialogue,
02:17
we have options to toggle on or off the tool, the tool path,
02:21
we can change the way that the stock is displayed,
02:24
we can stop on collisions and we can also change the view.
02:28
Currently, the view is set to model,
02:30
which means that the model is gonna rotate and the tool is gonna move in X and Z,
02:35
we can change it so that the tool spins around the model.
02:38
But in the case of a layer that doesn't necessarily make much sense,
02:41
we can also move over to info and statistics to
02:44
get more information about things like the machining time,
02:47
the amount of distance traveled,
02:49
the number of operations and tool changes
02:52
at this point. Let's go ahead and exit simulation.
02:54
Navigate back to a home view and make sure
02:57
that any changes are saved before we move on.
Video transcript
00:02
Use tool path simulation.
00:05
After completing this video, you'll be able to,
00:07
you simulate to validate tool paths
00:12
in fusion 360. Let's get started with the supply data set cam lathe simulation.
00:17
Inside this data set. We have a handful of operations that we want to take a look at.
00:21
We have our profile, roughing, finishing a grooving a Cher
00:25
tool path and finally a threading tool path,
00:28
each of these can be seen on screen by the section preview
00:33
and we can also turn on display in process stock.
00:37
One thing that doesn't display with impro
00:39
stock or this preview is going to be a threading tool path.
00:42
We also don't get a good idea in terms of the direction of the orientation,
00:47
the tool is moving.
00:48
In some cases we are able to see this.
00:50
But in other cases,
00:51
it might be a little bit difficult to identify that the
00:54
tool is moving in one direction rather than the other.
00:58
So to validate this, we want to select our entire setup,
01:01
go to actions and select simulate
01:04
when we select simulate, I'm gonna slow the speed down a little bit
01:08
but note that we can hold down the left mouse button and manually drag through.
01:12
We can select positions at the very bottom of the screen.
01:15
And we can also identify when different operations are happening
01:18
or we can select play to play through.
01:21
You can speed up or slow it down at any point in time.
01:24
And you can also use the options to jump to the next operation. For example.
01:28
Now I'm gonna slow it down and I'm gonna play through the champ for operation.
01:34
And we can see that the champers were displayed in red and
01:36
this is because the chaffer was not on the physical model.
01:41
The chaffer was added after the fact and that means
01:43
that it believes that there's too much stock that's been removed
01:47
when we're looking at stock comparison,
01:50
anything that's green matches the digital model,
01:53
anything that's blue still has stock left over and anything that displays
01:56
as red means that more stock than the digital model was removed.
02:00
As we take a look at this,
02:02
you can see that looks like the physical threads that we were expecting.
02:05
And this means that everything does appear to work properly,
02:09
even though the threads are displayed in red.
02:11
It does not necessarily mean that our tool paths have failed.
02:15
As we take a look at the simulate dialogue,
02:17
we have options to toggle on or off the tool, the tool path,
02:21
we can change the way that the stock is displayed,
02:24
we can stop on collisions and we can also change the view.
02:28
Currently, the view is set to model,
02:30
which means that the model is gonna rotate and the tool is gonna move in X and Z,
02:35
we can change it so that the tool spins around the model.
02:38
But in the case of a layer that doesn't necessarily make much sense,
02:41
we can also move over to info and statistics to
02:44
get more information about things like the machining time,
02:47
the amount of distance traveled,
02:49
the number of operations and tool changes
02:52
at this point. Let's go ahead and exit simulation.
02:54
Navigate back to a home view and make sure
02:57
that any changes are saved before we move on.
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