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Fusion 360 lathe post processor ready for BETA

Post by frijoli »

Change the .txt to .cps for fusion to recognize it.
Feedback is welcome.

Use at your own risk.
I have not tested this live.

Clay
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Re: Fusion 360 lathe post processor ready for BETA

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Has anyone tested this yet?
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Anyone?
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frijoli wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:02 pmAnyone?
Not quite there yet Clay....your efforts won't be for nothing!
Have you tested it well?

Marty
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Re: Fusion 360 lathe post processor ready for BETA

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martyscncgarage wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:42 pm
frijoli wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:02 pmAnyone?
Not quite there yet Clay....your efforts won't be for nothing!
Have you tested it well?

Marty
Unfortunately, I don't have a good way to physically test it. However, I I took a Fanuc Post processor and modified it so CNC12 would read it without any errors. Then I read through what I produced and compared it to Intercon.
Then I simulated it on CNC12 and it graphed what I expected.

It's essentially a Fanuc post with some data changed as in m codes that were the different number, and planar g codes that are unnecessary for CNC12 and created errors. I compared the Centroid output to the Fanuc output as far as actual feed rates and positions, and it was identical.

So that's where it is. I see no reason it would crash anything, but I can't say it always generate clean code.
At this point, I think it's the best post processor available for Fusion 360 and Centroid turning, and also, the only one. :lol:

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Re: Fusion 360 lathe post processor ready for BETA

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Appreciate your work on the post file. I want to test it out, but I'm setup for diameter mode in CNC12 and I can't find any way to change Fusion 360 from radius to diameter mode? I've read all the google articles I can find, but nothing really seems to show that it can be done. So to use Fusion 360 Cam, will I have to run CNC12 in radius mode?

Decided my first CNC run was gonna be a bishop instead of a pawn.....LOL....gotta be different.
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Oh yeah, noticed when I tried to post with mist turned on, the post processor would not run (well, it ran, just didn't create proper gcode).

Edit, for some reason it was because I had mist turned on. Using mist causes an error on the post running properly.
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Re: Fusion 360 lathe post processor ready for BETA

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Here is a lot more info on the stuff I've found with this post file. I started a new thread, as originally I thought it was my CNC12 setup. Now I think it's either the post file or a setting I have wrong in Fusion CAM.

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=1856
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