![]() ![]() In my opinion the effort involved in learning Fusion 360 is well worth it because it is very capable and it’s free. This is an open ended question, but to just get you started I am going to demonstrate in this article the minimum amount of knowledge needed to create basic toolpaths. If you want to find Autodesk’s knowledge base just click the ‘?’ in the top right hand corner of the Fusion 360 user interface. The majority of the tutorials I have seen neglect this area and concentrate on the design aspect only. The emphasis on this tutorial and any I do after this will be on creating toolpaths for a cnc machine. You will only have to understand a few of Fusion 360’s capabilities to get creating your projects. This introduction is titled ‘Fusion 360 basics’ because you don’t have to learn everything about this software to use it for creating your toolpaths. I will design this sign and create G Code for it in this tutorial This article will show you a step by step process for producing your own G Code using Fusion 360. So better to work on a copy of the file, if you want to retain the original paths/strokes/text.This is the first in a series of Fusion 360 training articles dedicated to teaching the basics of Fusion 360. ![]() Note: Once you have changed artwork to outlines, it's not reversible. You can also enable a visible red outline for selected paths if you click Edit > Preferences > Node, then under Path outline, choose the option that says "Always show outline". You can check if everything has been converted to paths by clicking on them with the Edit Paths by Nodes tool. Another problem you might come across is if you have multiple shapes converted to outlines, you can Unite them using Path > Unite to create one outlined shape rather than overlapping outlined shapes. You can select and convert multiple paths at the same time, with all of these methods. If the object is text, then Path > Object to Path will convert text to outlines. ![]() ![]() If the path is a Spiro path or BSpline, or has some other Path Effect, then click Path > Object to Path, followed by Path > Stroke to path If the path is just an ordinary path, ellipse, polygon, rectangle object, with a stroke, select it and click Path > Stroke to path ![]()
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