Create a second setup

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In this video, will create a second setup.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to create a new setup for milling.

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In fusion 360, we want to carry on with our gear housing for CNC mill.

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We've created are facing 2D Contour and our drilling and tapping operations and now the part is ready to be flipped over and held on the fixture.

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The first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to change the name of setup one to O.P1 or op1.

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This is a standard nomenclature and the name of your setups and tool paths are really going to be driven by any standards that you need to follow.

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Now that we've got op1 named, I'm going to go to my setup dialog and I'm going to use new setup.

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From here, we need to select a few things.

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We first want to expand our model and we want to turn back on our fixture front cover.

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This is going to be an important part as we're going to be defining that as a fixture.

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So we're going to enable the fixture selection and we want to select that body is our fixture.

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So now we have the main body as our model and we have our fixture selected.

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We need to rotate the part around as we'll be looking at it from a different side.

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I'm going to use this upper corner of my view cube to orient my view.

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Next we need to change the coordinate system.

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I'm going to modify the Z axis and X.

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By selecting the top face on my part, noting that this automatically changes the X, Y and Z orientation.

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But one thing that we need to be mindful of is where exactly we're going to be referencing.

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So I'm going to expand the models and I'm going to temporarily hide the gear housing assembly.

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And I want to think about where I want to reference my G 55 coordinate system or my G 54 depending on how I'm setting up our machine.

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In this instance, we likely want to reference something off of our fixture plate because there's not a corner here.

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We need to be mindful of the access we have to technology,

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because we are flipping it over and everything is going to be referenced from our stock and everything is going to be machine from one side.

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In this specific case we actually can use our box point in the corner and reference that as our coordinate system location.

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We machined away some of the material but we still have some of the material left that we can remove and this corner is one of those pieces.

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But again, it's extremely critical that we understand what geometry we have, especially if the operations and the flip were critical.

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At this point, I'm going to move on to my stock, and notice that I have relative size stock automatically selected,

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and we have some other options in here by default for example from solid we could model the stock if we wanted to,

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but I'm going to use a fixed size box and I'm going to use the same values that I used last time.

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This is going to be .375 and it's going to be 4.5 inches by 3 inches.

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Remember that, we did remove some material from the bottom of the part to about a quarter inch,

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but we still have the same size stock on the other side.

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So this will help us with our stock contour calculations and help us just get a little bit closer to that final shape.

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And lastly, we want to modify our post processing dialogue.

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This is going to be programmed number 1002 and we need to give it a comment.

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This is going to be our second setup. So I'm going to call this gear housing setup 2.

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Again, the nomenclature for setup versus op, that's really going to be based on the nomenclature that you use when you're programming.

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But I'm going to rename setup 4 to Op2.

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I also want to reset a new named view so I'm going to call this part Op2 ISO.

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So once again, I can always go back to the Op1 ISO or I can go to Op2 ISO, whenever needed.

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This really helps simplify the process of navigating between views when our standard view has changed.

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This file was originally modeled in the Y UP orientation and not the Z UP orientation.

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So my standard views, such as home, front and right, are not going to be the correct views now that we have our second setup created.

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Let's go ahead and save this design before moving on to the next step.