Originally Posted by
jttoner
The system will ask a few questions about what you are doing and what are the dimensions, depth of cut, feed rate, tool size etc. After you input your requirements it will generate ready to use gcode. For simple drilling, facing, profiling and such it's often quicker and easier to just write the gcode yourself. As for Fusion 360, it's a great program. Although, for me, I find it's not too intuitive. There are lots of tutorial videos on YouTube though many of them just demonstrate the presenter's "awesome" proficiency while not doing much tutoring. Lars Christensen has an outstanding Fusion 360 tutoring series. Watch a couple of his videos to get a feel for the program's many capabilities. As previously mentioned, Fusion's post default post processor for Tormach couldn't be easier to use and is always current. Fusion 360 will also output a file for a 3d printer slicer. I have a print job running at this moment that was created using Fusion 360.