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Transcript
00:02
In this lesson, we're going to learn about parting a CNC lathe part.
00:07
After completing this lesson, you'll be able to: Create a parting operation.
00:12
In Fusion 360, we want to carry on with our stock handling data set.
00:17
At this point in time, we removed the majority of the material.
00:20
We still have stock left on the back side and we need to part or separate this so that we can machine the other features on the backside of our part.
00:29
In order to do this, we have a toolpath called Turning Part.
00:33
So we're going to select Turning Part.
00:35
It's automatically going to grab our OD Grooving tool.
00:39
If we go and take a look at the tools that we have available,
00:42
notice that there are grooving tools and these are generally the same or very similar to a lot of parting tools.
00:50
There are different tools that you can use and select.
00:53
We're going to be using this in our example.
00:55
For our geometry, it's automatically going to pick up off the model back.
01:00
There is an edge break option that allows us to determine whether or not we want to cut a chamfer or fillet on the edge,
01:07
but I'm going to leave that off for now.
01:09
We have our default clearance values and we're going to take a look at all of these other settings in a minute.
01:14
But for right now we're just going to say OK.
01:17
If we say OK and we view this from the top, you can see the yellow is now broken into two pieces.
01:24
If we were to do a quick simulation and simply jump to the end,
01:28
what we would see is that we've created a toolpath that allows us to remove that material.
01:33
However, notice that we're actually seeing some gray here.
01:38
So if we take a look at what the tool is doing, you can see that this tool is not large enough to actually remove the material,
01:45
because what's actually happening is it's intersecting or it's gouging the part because it is so large.
01:52
So what happens in a case like this is we might need to consider a stock transfer.
01:58
So if your machine has multiple spindles and the capability to do a stock transfer,
02:03
you can bring another chuck in, grab the part and move it to the secondary or sub spindle and then machine off the back side.
02:11
Or we can use a different type of tool that can be used to remove that material.
02:17
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to edit the operation, I'm going to select another tool.
02:21
In my turning library, I'm going to go and take a look at grooving tools and just see what's available.
02:28
So we don't want to use an ID Grooving tool, but we have these OD Grooving tools, but none of them are really large enough.
02:35
So there's not a good tool that's already in the library that will work for this.
02:40
Keeping in mind that we don't actually need to go all the way to the center,
02:43
it's possible that we can maybe make some changes and we can determine how far in this actually needs to go.
02:50
So if we go to the radii and we take a look at the inner, we can see how far that we actually need to go in.
02:57
I'm going to bring this in just a little bit.
03:03
And I'm going to make that about 0.3 and then we're going to say OK and see if that has the same issues.
03:10
We can turn on in process stock and now we can see that potentially the tool no longer has that collision.
03:17
Let's do a quick verification going into simulation and just see if it's also having that collision.
03:24
Now you can see that we get down to that section that we drilled and we're no longer having that collision.
03:29
So simply making that change to how far in the tool had to go was enough of a difference for us to actually part off of the rest of the stock.
03:40
There are some more things that we're going to explore in terms of stock handling and stock transfer.
03:45
But for right now, I'm going to go back to home view and I want to save this before moving on.
Video transcript
00:02
In this lesson, we're going to learn about parting a CNC lathe part.
00:07
After completing this lesson, you'll be able to: Create a parting operation.
00:12
In Fusion 360, we want to carry on with our stock handling data set.
00:17
At this point in time, we removed the majority of the material.
00:20
We still have stock left on the back side and we need to part or separate this so that we can machine the other features on the backside of our part.
00:29
In order to do this, we have a toolpath called Turning Part.
00:33
So we're going to select Turning Part.
00:35
It's automatically going to grab our OD Grooving tool.
00:39
If we go and take a look at the tools that we have available,
00:42
notice that there are grooving tools and these are generally the same or very similar to a lot of parting tools.
00:50
There are different tools that you can use and select.
00:53
We're going to be using this in our example.
00:55
For our geometry, it's automatically going to pick up off the model back.
01:00
There is an edge break option that allows us to determine whether or not we want to cut a chamfer or fillet on the edge,
01:07
but I'm going to leave that off for now.
01:09
We have our default clearance values and we're going to take a look at all of these other settings in a minute.
01:14
But for right now we're just going to say OK.
01:17
If we say OK and we view this from the top, you can see the yellow is now broken into two pieces.
01:24
If we were to do a quick simulation and simply jump to the end,
01:28
what we would see is that we've created a toolpath that allows us to remove that material.
01:33
However, notice that we're actually seeing some gray here.
01:38
So if we take a look at what the tool is doing, you can see that this tool is not large enough to actually remove the material,
01:45
because what's actually happening is it's intersecting or it's gouging the part because it is so large.
01:52
So what happens in a case like this is we might need to consider a stock transfer.
01:58
So if your machine has multiple spindles and the capability to do a stock transfer,
02:03
you can bring another chuck in, grab the part and move it to the secondary or sub spindle and then machine off the back side.
02:11
Or we can use a different type of tool that can be used to remove that material.
02:17
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to edit the operation, I'm going to select another tool.
02:21
In my turning library, I'm going to go and take a look at grooving tools and just see what's available.
02:28
So we don't want to use an ID Grooving tool, but we have these OD Grooving tools, but none of them are really large enough.
02:35
So there's not a good tool that's already in the library that will work for this.
02:40
Keeping in mind that we don't actually need to go all the way to the center,
02:43
it's possible that we can maybe make some changes and we can determine how far in this actually needs to go.
02:50
So if we go to the radii and we take a look at the inner, we can see how far that we actually need to go in.
02:57
I'm going to bring this in just a little bit.
03:03
And I'm going to make that about 0.3 and then we're going to say OK and see if that has the same issues.
03:10
We can turn on in process stock and now we can see that potentially the tool no longer has that collision.
03:17
Let's do a quick verification going into simulation and just see if it's also having that collision.
03:24
Now you can see that we get down to that section that we drilled and we're no longer having that collision.
03:29
So simply making that change to how far in the tool had to go was enough of a difference for us to actually part off of the rest of the stock.
03:40
There are some more things that we're going to explore in terms of stock handling and stock transfer.
03:45
But for right now, I'm going to go back to home view and I want to save this before moving on.
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