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Fabrizio Cimò
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Fabrizio Cimò is an Italian engineer who has always had a passion for the world of 3D graphics and design. During his first degree in industrial design, he started uploading video lessons covering 3D modeling tools such as Rhinoceros, Blender, and Fusion 360 on his YouTube channel. Sometime later, Autodesk noticed his work and asked him to keep promoting Fusion 360 as an official student ambassador. During this time, he also joined Dynamis PRC, a racing team from Milano PT competing in the Formula SAE championship; thanks to this experience and his avid curiosity, he improved his knowledge of the manufacturing world. Today, Fabrizio works as a machine designer for an important company in the laser-cutting sector.
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Face milling

The first milling operation we should set up is, once again, face milling; in this case, we have to remove a layer of 1.5 mm on the top of the stock. We won’t cover this operation here since it is identical to the first one we introduced in Chapter 9; therefore, we may keep using the same tool and the same cutting parameters.

After the first facing, we should find something similar to this:

Figure 10.2: Face milling

Figure 10.2: Face milling

As we can see, the diagram displays both the cutting tool and the generated toolpath for the first face milling I implemented. We already know every setting from Chapter 9; therefore, I won’t bother you with a recap of what we did last time. However, this time I changed something in the settings. Let’s try to discover what I changed just by looking at the toolpath:

  • First of all, we can find an entry point close to the origin of the coordinate system, highlighted by the red cone pointed downward ...
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Fabrizio Cimò

Fabrizio Cimò is an Italian engineer who has always had a passion for the world of 3D graphics and design. During his first degree in industrial design, he started uploading video lessons covering 3D modeling tools such as Rhinoceros, Blender, and Fusion 360 on his YouTube channel. Sometime later, Autodesk noticed his work and asked him to keep promoting Fusion 360 as an official student ambassador. During this time, he also joined Dynamis PRC, a racing team from Milano PT competing in the Formula SAE championship; thanks to this experience and his avid curiosity, he improved his knowledge of the manufacturing world. Today, Fabrizio works as a machine designer for an important company in the laser-cutting sector.
Read more about Fabrizio Cimò