Recipe
We were tasked with designing a maze concept in Inventor, further modeling the maze in Fusion 360, and lastly cutting out the maze using the new tool we learned: The CNC Router. I knew when we first started this project that I didn't want to make my maze overly difficult to solve. (As that would typically require more work in Inventor, which I'm not that good at) A few requirements to have, were that the border had to be 3/8 of an inch, and that the channels had to be 5/16 of an inch wide, and 1/4 of an inch deep, so the ball could fit properly.
While working on the maze, I encountered a constant error message for somehow having an open loop. In order to fix this, I simply went to the "sketch doctor" option and hit close the open loops option.
In Fusion, we had to set the stock option, as well as manually adding where the router should start, what tool path to use, and the drill bit dimensions. When finished setting up in Fusion, we had to export the file using the correct G-Code, and set up the file on the router machine, which included finding the zeroes for the X,Y, and Z axes. After that we essentially just had to hit start, and let the machine do the rest.
In Fusion, we had to set the stock option, as well as manually adding where the router should start, what tool path to use, and the drill bit dimensions. When finished setting up in Fusion, we had to export the file using the correct G-Code, and set up the file on the router machine, which included finding the zeroes for the X,Y, and Z axes. After that we essentially just had to hit start, and let the machine do the rest.
What I learned
I learned how to set something up in fusion 360 for it to be converted into the correct G-Code as well as how to set up the router (finding the zeroes)