What software are you running for your designs

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Originally Posted by reefy86

what do people put as their machine in fusion 360 if its a diy made one? getting the hang of it and its nice to play with the simulation to get a feel of it rather then testing on the machine which i don't have yet. ill probably be importing a lot of stuff as a stl file because i make my designs else where but so far fusion 360 seems to be easy enough to use

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You should be able to find the correct post processor here.

https://cam.autodesk.com/hsmposts

Search for your machine or control software and download the correct one.

For example I use the CNC Drive post because I have UCCNC on a diy style machine.

Ollie

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Originally Posted by Ollie78

You should be able to find the correct post processor here.

https://cam.autodesk.com/hsmposts

Search for your machine or control software and download the correct one.

For example I use the CNC Drive post because I have UCCNC on a diy style machine.

Ollie

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Thank you :)

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Originally Posted by reefy86

what do people put as their machine in fusion 360 if its a diy made one? getting the hang of it and its nice to play with the simulation to get a feel of it rather then testing on the machine which i don't have yet. ill probably be importing a lot of stuff as a stl file because i make my designs else where but so far fusion 360 seems to be easy enough to use

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You can define your own machine anyway. Not that it seems to make a whole lot of difference in most cases. I used to just ignore this setting and did my toolpath generation with no machine specified.

You can also specify the default post-processor, and also the most valuable thing that I have found - the default Z "Home" position. I don't think that that matters too much with Mach3 as you can define the tool-change position as part of the G28-related parameters, but UCCNC does not handle G28 the same way and you need this to be set up. In fact, I think that this was the driver for me actually setting up a machine definition in the first place as I changed motion controllers in my mill and went from Mach3 to UCCNC. Had a lot of problems with tool-change height and similar until I discovered this.

Got from etsy in ireland £22.74 worked fine aspire pro10
have it on zip file

KEVIN

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Originally Posted by hoopy

Got from etsy in ireland £22.74 worked fine aspire pro10
have it on zip file

KEVIN

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Likely a non legit cracked version that they got for free. :whistle:

Hi, I use solidworks for design which now comes with the ability to make tool paths. Also vcurve if it’s a simple part to machine. And the odd bit of fusion360 for gcode.