Fusion 360 Mill Post Processor for CNC12 with additional Features (New Community Version 1.0)

[suntravel]

At the moment only TCP for XYZ A and B articulated head or tilting A axis in B direction, but AC is on the list...

Uwe

[suntravel]

some bugfixes.

Simulation was ok but it did not post A Axis, that is now ok.

Funny that used local, there is no need to out comment the two lines, but used from cloud it gives the error.

Last version of autodesk Centriod PP is simulation ready, but does not support TCP in the machine configuration.

Uwe

[spikee]

I think it should be pretty easy to add tcp. Fusion probably just needs some code to enable it. Too bad centroid does not have a simulation mode, as it would allow for testing these things without actually having to do it on actual hardware.

[suntravel]

I am using the offline version for simulations....

Uwe

[RJS100]

Rigid tapping with chip breaking works like charm! I made some soft jaws out of plain old Bambu PETG HF to hold this small item. I tapped it with chip breaking, and it worked great. With light WOC and gentle speeds and feeds it appears that you can get away with PETG for soft jaws.

[RJS100]

Looks like you need to make sure you have enough cooling. I made the same part again today and did not have enough mist cooling... the part got hot, heated the PETG and let's say good by end mill

I told my wife and she said wow.... Last year you had brain surgery.... This year you broke your first end mill... We are off to a good year!

[spikee]

some bugfixes.

Simulation was ok but it did not post A Axis, that is now ok.

Funny that used local, there is no need to out comment the two lines, but used from cloud it gives the error.

Last version of autodesk Centriod PP is simulation ready, but does not support TCP in the machine configuration.

Uwe

I modified this:
Added preload tool functionality by adding the M107 part to the properties.preloadTool section (note you need to enable this in the post processor.

Also I got confirmation that that the whole machine definition part can be removed. I just needed to add a section in the onOpen function.

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  // define and enable machine configuration
  receivedMachineConfiguration = machineConfiguration.isReceived();
  if (typeof defineMachine == "function") {
    defineMachine(); // hardcoded machine configuration
  }
  activateMachine(); // enable the machine optimizations and settings

Note this is untested ... but should work
https://github.com/BuildItAnyway/Fusion ... y_V0.3.cps

[suntravel]

I decided to go on with the last Autodesk Centroid PP rather than working on the old one with swissi mod.
Some of the code is anyway no longer needed with CHIPS and the simulation is better with the new version, since the new one will simulate connection moves also in the correct feed (rapid) rate.

Uwe

[spikee]

I decided to go on with the last Autodesk Centroid PP rather than working on the old one with swissi mod.
Some of the code is anyway no longer needed with CHIPS and the simulation is better with the new version, since the new one will simulate connection moves also in the correct feed (rapid) rate.

Uwe

I would kinda think it makes the most sense to start with the fanuc one, and go from there. Presumably the changes between that and centroid one is very minimal. I'm just assuming here that the autodesk centroid post is presumably not very up to date.

Edit:
Just did a check and the centroid post also can do sim + has tool preload, except the tool preload does not call M107 just the T? , so I think in reality that wont work. But should easy to add.

[spikee]

Hmm I see pretty much all post processers that Autodesk manages are updated ~8 days ago.
It seems that they have some kind of framework to auto update them with the newest features. In that case I indeed think it is best to continue from the centroid one.