Fill in my knowledge gap :)

[needleworks]

Well, i now have a Haimer 3d-Taster for edge referencing, nice little tool, if i ever get the mill project finished it will come in handy ;)

Nice one mate, can I just ask, where did you get the Haimer from as I was also considering getting one?

Also, John Saunders has a good channel which shows a lot of tutorials for F360, Fusion Friday I think they`re called
https://www.youtube.com/user/saunixcomp/videos

[Davek0974]

Got it from WNT, came next day ;)

[needleworks]

Not being a lazy sod, but just had a look and can`t find any probing tools !! you don`t happen to have a link do you mate?

[Davek0974]

Here you go, i got the HQ unit...

https://www.wnt.com/uk/search-result...335&no_cache=1

[needleworks]

Here you go, i got the HQ unit...

https://www.wnt.com/uk/search-result...335&no_cache=1

Thanks mate, I`m gonna bookmark that one for future reference

[Davek0974]

Hmm, watched a couple of vids on the 'tube, played about a bit and managed to recreate the back plate for the Z-Axis drive on my bridgeport conversion project, previously made via 2d cad.



With a couple of years practice, i might just get the hang of F360 after all ;)

This took me about 2 hours.

[Davek0974]

Ok, simple task, used to do it manually by guesswork mainly ;)

I have a block of metal, rough-sawn on two edges, say i need to make this exactly 50mm wide from these two edges.

Square and clean up one edge by doing a facing pass on it but remove just enough to clean it,
Zero the Z axis on the base of the vise or whatever the part is held in,
Rotate the part and run a pass or passes to arrive at Z50.00

Is that a reasonable plan for a seemingly simple task?