DESIGN DIFFERENTLY: Have you ever wondered how to manufacture a chamfer along a 3D edge? Creating the geometry while designing is easy, but machining it is a little trickier. The trick is to use a Scallop operation and a ball endmill, surprising as that may be! You can use 2D chamfer to create intelligent toolpaths, but it doesn’t apply to 3D chamfers.
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Over the past couple months, I have seen more and more people using fusion. The one question that I have to ask is how useful is this program for theatre? It seems like the program is designed to draw very small objects that require a lot of detail. Don’t get me wrong, this is definitely a valuable feature but most of the time I find a scene shop has a hard enough time getting a standard drawing down to the floor let alone one that has fasteners and all. Although fusion might not be designed for the theatre industry I still think it has valuable features that could be of use. One aspect that I have seen is the capability to run stress tests and force simulations. I can definitely see this being a form of verification when people are doing technical designs or other drawings that could potentially have a human error. It would be nice to see if some form of intermediate program comes out that caters more toward this industry.
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