What a great video. I was able to use all of your techniques very easily. Thanks Lars!

thanks for this video, answered alot of questions i had about multi setup/axis work in fusion. now to go and play :) keep up the grate work.

Great video Lars! I’m new to the cnc community but I love cnc Mills. I recently got my first cnc mill and I was wondering if you can make a video on how to set up A axis in a Haas machine and how to build the Rotary A axis and how would you program a part not with the wrap tool in fusion 360?

Lars, nice video. I'd love an expansion video on this subject. Specifically, if I have a 4-side tombstone (the vice variety like presently sold by Chick Workholding). Each side has 2 positions and all 4 sides have the same part; the top position on each side (OP1) and the bottom position (OP2). Let's assume the parts have 6 side to machine. My question is, keeping the idea of amortizing tool change (minimizing the number of tool changes) between OP1 and OP2, AND hitting the 2 exposed face AND the 4 exposed sides on the other 2 sides. Once this is done, then we index 4 times, and 4 complete parts come off. Whew! Thank you for your thoughts, but this would be a great video and it could be integrated into a vertical machine scenario as well with the same part, OP1 and OP2, in each of the 2 vice positions of a double station vice, with 2 or 3 vices.

Great video Lars. I've been waiting for a 4th axis tombstone video for a while.

Parabéns professor muito boa suas vídeos aulas 👏👏

Great vid, not too much info, that's exactly what it takes , thanks!

Hey Lars Excellent video. Always easy to understand your concepts and you've taught me loads about Fusion :-) One thing I don't understand though is how does fusion know where the centre of rotation is? On the second example I suppose it doesn't need to know. It just remembers X, Y, Z, A in space and orients it that way. On the first example is the origin also the centre of rotation? So say if I had a two sided tombstone I couldn't touch off at the back corner it would have to be on the A axis centre line? Apart from the above amazing as always :-)

Is there a good video that deals with building out the tombstone and fixturing and attaching the vises and sub plates and such, and making the parts orient in them correctly? Thats the part I am trying to understand better.

Great as always thank you so much for your time

Good stuff.!! I completely understand the episode!!

Awesome Video Lars! Thank You

Great video again thanks Lars

Nice information thank you

Thanks a lot. I understand what I can't understand long time

Thanks Lars. Good info.

Thank you Lars. I cant wait to program my tombstone now. I am still working on positioning the parts on the tombstone. One thing I noticed is there was no additional clearance of the tool while the pallet is rotating. Does that have to be done manually? Ryan

If you need to rotate to hit another side of the part is there a quicker way or just creating a new set up each time?

i dont like the fact that simulation doesnt show you the actuall rotation of B axis, because im always terrified that i forgot to retarct the tabe before doing rotation and that it will collide with the spindle :D

Thanks for the video Lars, Is there a way to machine the two different parts, on two different sides of the tombstone, presumably with two separate setups (in order to define the tool orientation / tombstone side), but also be able to minimize tool changes? For example Part A on side 90, Part B on side 180...T23 on part A, then T23 part B, then change tools to T40 for part B, and move to T40 Part A, etc. (tool numbers are arbitrary of course). Basically making some operations that use the same tool on the two different parts shown in this tombstone video, completing all operations on all parts with a given tool once rather than changing in and out of the spindle. This is useful for manual tool change machines with or without additional axis as individual parts could be programmed, and then grouped on a table or tombstone as needed. Making mirror parts, full component sets, etc rather than large numbers of the same component.

Could you do another 4th axis tombstone video where you show how to do operations on three sides of two different components. Component A mounted at the top of the tombstone and a completely different Component B mounted at the bottom. Do all the processes to all sides facing the spindle on all six parts, rotate 90 degrees, repeat, rotate 90 degrees, repeat, rotate 90 degrees, repeat. Really appreciate your work.

Is it smart to use pattern as you can't measure all 4 workpieces sperately by doing so? Would a proper setup not use different WCS for each workpiece?

What if on the second wcs. You face the part like you did but also wanted to drill holes on the side of it ??? How would you go about that ?

Question on the second method WCS, so would you probe Z like you would X, and probe X like you would Z with a Renishaw Probe ?

Great video as always . May i recommend a better video quality ? its kinda blurry and isnt possible to clearly see all the text/commands Regards

thanks for the tutorials Lars . advanced question. can fusion post subroutines using G10? i have a horizontal with 40 parts per tombstone. each part has three sides that needs machining. rather than have 120 wcs' im hoping to have three wcs', but with a wcs shift for each part derived in the code (so it can be nudged on a per part basis if required).. eg. G10 L2 P.. X.. Y.. Z.. thanks in advance

Lars, Great Info, Thanks. However, I would like to know if there is a way or a post that will swap axis. We have old horizontal boring mills with manual positioning Universal heads mounted to a extending ram .. So a lot of times we will program straight on as normal, but quite often will we have a piece setup mounted to that table so we will position the head 90 deg perpendicular to the table . This means we have to swap out the Y axis for the Z axis and use G18 instead of G17. but we still use G54. We have other CAM software that I was able to modify the Post to do this but we are trying to move towards a one source software . Is there an existing post out there for fusion that can do this? I don't consider this an advanced thing, as I can use secondary software (NC Text editing ) to swap axis, but would like to be able to do this using the features you showed here. Thanks

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