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Fabrizio Cimò
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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.
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Tapping

There is not a dedicated command for tapping, so we have to use the drilling command instead. Since we just reviewed the command for drilling, we will just cover the important settings for tapping.

We have to thread the first 20 millimeters of the holes with an ISO M8 x 1.25 thread. To do this, we have to choose a tap with the same pitch and diameter. Luckily, there are many tapping tools at our disposal in the default tool library; therefore, we don’t have to create or import a new tool.

Figure 9.28: Drilling’s Tool tab (used for Tapping)

Figure 9.28: Drilling’s Tool tab (used for Tapping)

CoroPlus suggests a Spindle Speed setting of 1360 RPM, resulting in a Surface Speed setting of 34.1805 m/min, so all we have to do is input those values inside the panel.

Then, we have to specify all of the holes to machine using the Geometry panel; we won’t repeat this procedure, since it’s identical to how we drilled the pilot holes in the last section.

However, we should...

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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