![]() However, he designed it to run all the toolpaths in the current file, whereas I often have multiple setups and machining operations within each component. Have to say it worked fine, once we'd figured out the need to issue a G90 after each toolchange retract. These were the main annoyances that result in the free version. Tim Paterson has developed a pretty functional Python add-in for Fusion that allows the use of multiple tools and the replacement of rapids. I dismounted the 4th axis from The Shiz and left it to collect dust while the situation became clearer and I sulked about the new reality. Furthermore, the details of what was in the free version and what was in the paid version was as clear as mud. ![]() This didn't sit well with my Scottish-Yorkshire heritage, given the annual subscription cost. Or at least a significant hobbling of many of the functions in the free version. At almost exactly the same time, Autodesk performed the full reverse ferret and announced the end of free access to Fusion. Not so long ago, I put the finishing touches to my own design of 4th axis, using a harmonic drive and a Yaskawa Sigma servo drive. That turns out to have been just as well, since Swissi (on the Centroid forum) came out with a fully developed and enormously powerful probing app that far exceeded anything I could ever have hoped for. ![]() I soon realised I wasn't up to the job and pragmatically gave it up as an unrealistic challenge. I looked at his probing macros when I was weighing up the possibilities of implementing probing macros in the Fusion 360 post processor. He's done some great videos, sharing what he has been up to. ![]() Background - 4th axis operation vs Fusion 360 changes:ĭavid Loomes ( Xoomspeed) has done some great work on his Tormach / Pathpilot system, particularly with in-process probing and his wireless probing system, that allows a touch probe to be used in an ATC system.
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