I drew this for my street sign. It is intended to have a bend at the base which has 4 holes to screw into the top of the post. I am also going to add some side braces between that base piece and the upright.
My issue is I cannot seem to find the right settings in fusion 360 to get the wheels to cut, nor even the 4 .27 holes on the bottom.
I have included the fusion file, the error image and also the .svg file I drew.
I’m using a stock Razorweld 45 setup with 14 gauge steel. My settings are .044 kerf, 35 amps, 60ipm, with a lead in of .055. I tried different angles on the lead in/out to no avail. Fusion just doesn’t seem to want to cut out the finer details. I am obviously messing something up. I am getting better with my crossfire, but still working through the details of the workflows.
Any help would be appreciated and be gentle with the guy who only uses his table on a not regular basis.
I will take a look at it in about 30 minutes. Someone might get to it before. Should be straight forward. The boss just got home and I have dinner ready.
So some of those contours on the wagon are just not going to take. First I started by taking away some of the values that you did not need on the first tool path:
Here is what you had:
And in the new toolpath, I severely decreased your lead-in and added Lead-in Positions by tapping where you see white dots to try to get Fusion to take the contours. I got the spokes and the mounting holes.
I then added a third tool path without any lead-in and it only grabbed a couple more contours on the wagon. The ones it skips are simply too small. You would need to make the contours larger by design of the contours or enlarging the design. Finally, I moved those last two toolpaths ahead of your original toolpath so that your last cut will be the outside perimeter of the sign.
What that means is the center is likely to fall out because there is not enough support for it. I try to get about 0.11 inches at a minimum for the width of the bridge.
Jim, thanks so much for all of the help. You seriously highlighted my lack of understanding on a lot of the Fusion settings. I am going to go through each one you set and read up on what they are for. I had no idea there were so many variables that would help get clean cuts.
I’ll add some larger bridges to the letters. If I get this to cut properly I’ll post a picture of the final.
Thanks again for the help Jim, I used what you posted above for a different project as well. I had no idea you could do multiple cut sets in Fusion. That and the zero lead in/out helped a lot.
(I wish Fusion was smart enough to do the vertical lettering. They could improve it by allowing spacing adjustment between each line of text. I assume you did the lettering by putting each letter on a separate line.)
here in the screenshot I have an arrow pointing to the text along a path. I have a vertical construction line as my path and I’m using these rotated vertical texts on it.
Definitely a good method if you have a very certain font you want. The only issue is that the letters end up justified to one side with most fonts so there’s a slight odd appearance. You also have no ability to change the spacing between the lettering.
But a very usable method that I have made signs with in the past.
And the other method would be to explode the text, unlock those closed chains and manually move them into position. This method can work also but it’s not easy or quick.
LOL! When my network was excruciatingly slow I’d cringe at the thought of launching Fusion! If it was raining, forget it. Not going to happen!
Fortunately I’ve rearranged the world so I can now have decent network speed and now it’s only when I start up on Wednesday and have to download the latest fix that I plan to go get coffee and contemplate an ideal world.
