Design Futures Lab

CAM basics Exercises

A few short projects you can combine with online tutorials to learn of Computer Aided Manufacturing for CNC amd Fusion 360!

#2 - G-Code Challenge

Now you have made some basic tool paths take a quick step back and familiarizing yourself with G-Code. Do some research online, post one of your toolpaths and have a look at it, and practice writing a bit of code with the following challenge: Write your Initials in G-Code by hand coding it.

#3 - Learn a little bit about tools, feeds and speeds + do the tool library challenge

Whilst at UNSW we have spent a lot of time building a tool library for you to use it's worth knowing how to add your own too.

Check read through the material about Tools, Feeds, and Speeds and then complete the Tool library Challenge.

If your doing this as a class exercise please export and submit a .JSON file of your tool library (named firstname_lastname_zid_tools.Jjson) for homework