Summary

We're all familiar with CAD, but what about CAM? One of the main benefits of having a 3D digital model of our design is the ability to leverage CNC manufacturing to make it for us. CAM or Computer Aided Manufacturing is how we make the set of instructions to control the CNC machine to achieve this. Luckily our favourite CAD software - Autodesk Fusion - has this functionality built in, so in this webinar we'll look at using the manufacturing workspace in fusion to create tool paths.

00:00 Hey team, Connor here from HPA.
00:01 Welcome to another one of our webinars.
00:04 This week we're going to be talking about CAM or computer-aided manufacturing, having a little bit of an introductory look inside Autodesk Fusion, which is a typical CAD software that we work in.
00:16 So, we're going to talk about how we can use, or have a look at how we can use Fusion to make toolpaths for 3D printing, CNC machining, and 2D cutting with a laser or water jet or plasma cutter.
00:32 But there are other options there as well.
00:35 The first thing that I want to note is that this does require an extension within Fusion.
00:41 Even if you have the paid version of Fusion, it does require an extra expense to use the manufacturing workspace like this.
00:53 If we just look at my computer screen here and go to this extensions, a little button at the top here, we can see the different extensions here.
01:04 And you can see I've got the manufacturing extension active.
01:07 So, using this extension costs about USD$170 a month.
01:13 And you can kind of just use it as you need and, so on.
01:17 There is also...
01:20 Not all the extensions are like that.
01:21 Some of them are a bit cheaper.
01:24 They're all actually significantly cheaper, I think.
01:26 If we go to plans and pricing, this is not actually...
01:30 This is slightly different to the extension.
01:33 So, you've got your normal Fusion plan, but there are other Fusion plans like Fusion for manufacturing, which includes the manufacturing extension within it, but it also has more advanced stuff in it as well.
01:48 And then there's Fusion for design, which has got the design extension, simulation extension, and it does have some manufacturing extension stuff in it as well.
01:57 But these are a lot, lot more expensive than the standard Fusion offering.
02:03 And you can only buy them in one year or three year increments, I think.
02:08 So, this ends up being cheaper if you just want to do CAM work and Fusion.
02:13 And there are, I think, there's also possibly options to use these Flex tokens as well to do it, and that might work out a little bit cheaper again if you only need to use it every now and then.
02:27 So, something like the actual plans might be something, if you're doing this full-time professionally every day using it, probably going to want to look at something like this.
02:35 If you're just doing it every now and then, maybe one of the other options is possible for you.
02:39 Or, of course, look at other CAM software as well.
02:44 There's lots of options here.
02:45 We're just looking at basically the idea of how it works in Fusion and why we might want to do it in Fusion where we've done our CAD or 3D modeling work in the first place.
02:55 But we'll get back to that in just a moment.
02:58 Cool, so let's just start off by looking at a 3D printed part and how we'd set that up in our CAM software.
03:06 And for those of you familiar with 3D printing, you might be just thinking, why don't we just use a slicer? And again, I'll come back to that in just a moment.
03:15 So, the model we've got here is a suspension upright scan that's being assembled with a hub and a brake disc and a brake caliper.
03:26 And that has been used to design this brake caliper bracket here.
03:32 It's a very simple design.
03:33 And I've used this example quite a lot before, if you are familiar with it, you might have seen it in webinars and in some of our free lessons as well.
03:43 But it does kind of illustrate quite a few good points.
03:47 So basically, after we've done this design, before we get the brake caliper bracket CNC machined, it's a good idea to just 3D print a plastic prototype to make sure that it mounts the caliper in the right spot over the disc and everything lines up as expected.
04:04 It's nice and true with the disc between the caliper and the edge of the brake pad lines up with that out edge of the disc and things like that.
04:13 So, what we want to do is we just want to see how we could use Fusion to 3D print this body here.
04:22 And you can see I've got threads in it and that is all good for 3D printing threads of that size.
04:30 I'd probably just chase them with a tap afterwards, but they'll be functional.
04:33 It's not going to be super strong, it's just a prototype.
04:36 So, the first thing we need to do is go up here to our workspaces and we want to change the workspace over to this manufacturing workspace from our design workspace.
04:50 It's going to take a minute to load.
04:52 Hopefully, not too long.
04:53 Here we go.
04:54 Okay, so now we're in our manufacturing workspace and you can see that our toolbars have changed along the top here from our typical kind of CAD design workspace.
05:03 So, we have options here of milling, turning for working on a lathe, additive, which is what we're going to be looking at.
05:11 There's also some stuff on inspection, which I imagine being using like 3D scanning arms or probe arm kind of things.
05:23 Ferro arms, I think they're called.
05:25 And then we've got fabrication stuff here too and some other stuff down the end.
05:29 We'll have a look at fabrication and milling very soon.
05:32 We're going to start off by looking at additive here.
05:36 So, the first thing to do when we do any of these CAM manufacturing work in Fusion is to start with a new setup.
05:46 So, that's at the end here, new setup, and we're just going to select that.
05:52 And at this point here, it's pretty typical that we will start by selecting whatever machine we're going to be using, whatever CNC machine.
06:00 And then the setup, like the operation type, but we'll come through this as we go.
06:06 So, for the machine, opened a window over here.
06:11 Fusion has a inbuilt kind of library with a lot of machines in it.
06:17 But if there's a machine you're using that's not in here, it is possible to kind of set up your own machine with all the settings, like the bed dimensions and the z-axis heights and all of that in here as well.
06:34 At HPA, we have a BambooLab X1E.
06:38 You can also filter by all these different ones down here and different capabilities, but we'll just select that BambooLab X1E and go select.
06:47 So, that's already put this kind of geometry of the print bed in there.
06:54 Don't worry about that too much for now.
06:56 Setup is naturally going to be additive as opposed to these other ones.
07:01 We'll leave the arrangement on.
07:04 And then manufacturing model.
07:06 The model is just going to be this body here.
07:10 Post-process, we don't really need to worry about that for now.
07:14 We'll just leave it at this default 101.
07:19 And that's okay.
07:21 Let's open this up again.
07:24 Okay, so next, this is automatically taking me to the print setting library.
07:31 So, what we want to do here is select the print settings and that's going to be based on the type of machine that we're working with and the material that we're working with.
07:42 So, for a part like this little prototype that we want to print quick and cheap, it's going to be fairly normal to print with PLA.
07:51 That's a standard 3D printing filament that's cheap and easy to print.
07:55 And we can print it at high speed too.
07:57 So, our BambooLab printer is a direct drive type of printer rather than the Bowden tube one.
08:03 So, we're going to do that and it's saying the default layer height here is 0.15.
08:09 I think we can actually change that soon, but that's pretty standard of a relatively high quality 3D print as well.
08:15 So, we'll select that and that's gone ahead and kind of set up this basic setup here and it's starting to kind of populate some things as well.
08:27 Okay, so this has brought us into this adaptive arrangement.
08:33 Sorry, additive arrangement screen here.
08:37 So, I'm just going to get rid of these components because the only component that we actually want to do, so, if we look at our manufacturing model, is this body here.
08:47 And we can just ignore everything else for the time being.
08:51 These rotation, everything, it doesn't matter for now because we are basically going to set up the orientation on the print bed in just a moment, but that's all good.
09:05 So, I'm just going to hit OK.
09:07 And what we can actually do here is jump into our PLA settings.
09:12 We can see it's got normal here that's been selected, but we can edit those settings.
09:18 Okay, it's popping up in my other window.
09:21 And we can see there's some presets here for a strong version or a normal version of those print settings for PLA.
09:31 And we can come in here and if you're familiar with 3D printing and working with slices, you'll kind of get an idea of what this is all about.
09:40 But essentially, this is our print settings that the printer is going to use.
09:43 So, for example, the shell, which is like the outer shell or outer walls of the print, we can change all that in here.
09:51 We can change the infill, for example.
09:54 Maybe I want this to be 20% infill rather than 15% and I want to use a gyroid infill structure.
10:01 All of that is in here.
10:03 Print bed adhesion, it's using a brim in this case.
10:08 To be honest, I don't think it needs print bed adhesion.
10:11 It's not going to be a problem.
10:14 Support, we'll come back to that in a moment.
10:17 And then the speeds here, this is a fairly kind of standard stuff that you kind of want to know for whatever filament you're using.
10:24 High speed PLA, we generally just want to be printing with 300 millimeters a second or less, which is pretty quick.
10:32 All of these numbers are less than 300.
10:35 So, this is pretty kind of conservative here.
10:37 We're just going to leave this all as is, but you get an idea here for how we can change those print settings.
10:43 We'll just hit OK.
10:45 Cool.
10:47 All right.
10:48 So, the next thing I want to look at is this position kind of area here.
10:53 So, we could manually move the component.
10:55 We can minimize the build height or we can place the parts on the platform ourself, which is what I want to do.
11:01 In this case, the optimum print orientation is pretty obvious for this part.
11:08 So, I'm going to just lay it flat on a face and I'm just going to select this back face here and go OK.
11:16 So, that's just dropping that straight onto the platform.
11:18 The reason for this is one, that means that the gravity or, yeah, gravity will have no effect on the whole positions because they're all aligned with the build platform.
11:29 So, that's going to be as accurate as possible.
11:30 And in this case, we get the best surface finish on vertical and horizontal walls.
11:36 There's not going to be any kind of steps from the layer heights.
11:39 Everything's nice and lined up with the coordinate system.
11:42 And with this face on the build platform, we actually also don't need to use any support material either.
11:49 And you kind of want to avoid using supports where you can because the weather supports land on the surface kind of leaves these witness marks or just ends up with a worse surface finish.
12:03 So anyway, that's pretty good.
12:05 We're not going to need to use supports, but we could generate that from here.
12:08 We can duplicate the parts and, so on from here as well.
12:13 But this is basically all that is really needed.
12:17 From here, we can generate our toolpath or we can just come down here, right click and generate the arrangement isn't, so important in this case because we only have one part that we're 3D printing.
12:33 But if we had multiple, that might come into play.
12:35 And then once we have the additive toolpath, it's just automatically gone and created that itself.
12:41 We can right click from down here or we can click up here and we can just simulate the additive toolpath.
12:47 And then this is very similar to what we have in our slicing software as well, where we can drag down through the layers and we get this kind of visual indication by the colors of how that part's actually going to be built up.
13:01 So, we have the outer wall shown in red, the top layer shown in orange there, the infill in this kind of orange as well and, so on.
13:09 But you can see how that's going to be built up.
13:11 And I always like to just kind of drag through the part there.
13:15 And yeah, see if just check, give a bit of a sanity check that we're not got any weird errors creeping in or something strange happening.
13:25 But that's all looking pretty good.
13:28 Okay, cool.
13:29 So, from here, we can just go to post-process, either from here or down here.
13:36 Another screen.
13:38 So, here we're just selecting the kind of post -processing language that the printer is going to work on.
13:47 So, there's some default settings for all this, which makes it all very easy.
13:51 And, so none of that's really important.
13:57 But we're just going to export that at that 1001 file name to the desktop.
14:03 And we're going to kind of continue on with that at the moment.
14:05 But that's generating a G-code NC extension or toolpath for that.
14:11 So, fairly standard stuff there.
14:13 We could use temperature tower and, so on as well if we wanted to.
14:17 But it's just not our focus with what we're doing here.
14:20 So, we'll go post and that will just generate that toolpath.
14:26 Cool.
14:27 So, that's successfully done that.
14:29 Now, what I'm going to do is open our slicing software, which is where we would do our normal CAM work.
14:35 And again, I'm going to come back soon and just describe or explain rather why we would want to do it this way in some cases.
14:44 So, we don't need to use this prepare tab.
14:46 We could just go straight to preview.
14:48 And then from here, bear with me just a moment as I find that file.
14:59 So, we've got 1001.gcode, dump that on there.
15:05 And we can see that that has got all of that there.
15:09 And it's already kind of done the slicing for us.
15:12 Now, it won't do the usual thing in Bamboo Studio where it breaks us up in the color-coded layer lines like what we just saw before because Bamboo Studio hasn't done the work.
15:24 It's been done elsewhere and just brought in here.
15:26 And then we can just go print plate, send that to our printer, which I'm not actually connected to any at the moment.
15:32 And yeah, go from there and it'll print our part for us.
15:36 Cool.
15:37 So, a couple of things to address here.
15:40 You get the idea of the general process.
15:42 We're just doing the slicing work in Fusion.
15:45 But there's a few things to kind of talk about here.
15:49 Because if you are familiar with 3D printing, you're probably wondering why would you not just do this work in Bamboo Studio? Because it's designed for that.
15:58 And it's probably better at it, to be honest.
16:02 And if you are working with Bamboo Studio or a modern printer like this, and to be honest, there's really no reason you wouldn't do that.
16:10 And especially in the case with Fusion, where if we go back to the Design Workspace, we have this ability from the Utilities tab here to go make 3D print and then export to a print utility being Bamboo Studio.
16:32 And click that and then go OK.
16:34 And that'll send that straight over to Bamboo Studio like this into that Prepare tab and we can do everything from there.
16:43 So, that's really important, the fact that it's a direct path from the CAD software straight into our slicing software.
16:53 Some older slices and with older machines, older 3D printers that you might have, you need to export a mesh file from your solid model and then open this in the slicer.
17:06 And it's that process that can lead to some issues.
17:09 Basically, it's quite common to have these CAD to CAM issues creep in where you're not using kind of the native file format.
17:18 So, as it's changing that file format, sometimes you can have errors or weird things creep into the geometry of the part that kind of cause errors and issues when it comes to the manufacturing process.
17:33 So, being able to do all of that work from within Fusion and just stay in this and just go to the manufacturing workspace really means that all of that is kind of sidestepped where it's not possible for those errors to creep in by changing the file formats or anything.
17:52 And that's the same thing if we talk about CNC machining or anything like that as well.
17:58 In some cases, we'd be exporting different file types, sending that to the machinist, and then they'd be uploading that into a different CAM software and just along that way, sometimes issues can happen.
18:12 So, that's an idea of why we might consider doing it like this in Fusion.
18:20 But again, for something like using a BambooLab printer or, so on, where we can go export or transfer directly from our Fusion to the slicing software, it's not really going to be an issue.
18:32 And we would just do the slicing in BambooStudio.
18:38 So, just wanted to make a point at this moment.
18:41 If you have any questions related to CAD stuff like this, feel free to ask them in the chat and I'll do my best to answer them at the end.
18:50 All right, let's move on from that one then.
18:52 I'm just going to close that down and we'll have a look at a little bit of a different one.
19:00 We're going to be looking at a CNC machined part in this case.
19:05 So, what we've got here is actually a 3D scan of all the suspension and the brake disc in our staff race car, which is a B18C swapped Honda City.
19:18 It's really lightweight, fun little car.
19:21 And what we were doing before we got into doing some eight-hour endurance races with this is we fitted these bigger discs and these endless brakes to it, which were the old ones off the SR86 race car.
19:34 We're laying around the workshop and, yeah, we kind of claimed them.
19:38 But they have worked really well.
19:40 At the moment, they've done two eight-hour endurance races on the same set of brake pads and there's plenty of life left in them.
19:51 Hardly goes through brakes at all.
19:53 With the master cylinders and pedal box that we've got in the car, super good bias, really easy to drive.
19:59 Don't lock up or anything unless you try to.
20:02 So yeah, it's a really good kit.
20:04 And it just never gets too hot and lasts forever.
20:09 So, it's ideal, really.
20:10 So basically, when we were fitting these to the car, designed this brake caliper bracket here.
20:18 And then we got it machined.
20:22 I just want to make the point here, I am absolutely not a machinist.
20:26 And I don't typically do any of this cam work for machining as well.
20:31 But we got these machined from Bruce at 513 Fab or also he's part of All Fab here in New Zealand.
20:40 He's an awesome CNC machinist.
20:42 And luckily for us, he actually uses Fusion to do his cam work with the CNC machine.
20:48 So, he could take this part directly, use it in Fusion, and we can also see exactly what he did with all that.
20:56 So, we'll jump into the manufacturing tab and we'll have a good look at that just now.
21:04 Just going to hide those scans.
21:07 So, now we just have this brake caliper bracket.
21:11 And those of you with good attention to detail might have noticed that the caliper is actually mounted on the wrong side in this case with the bridge over the top and the bleed nipples pointing down.
21:24 That's just those caliper that I scanned when I was doing this.
21:28 They are identical left to right other than the piston sizes, but how they mount and the general structure of them is.
21:34 So, don't worry about that.
21:36 I haven't actually mounted it on the car like this because it wouldn't bleed up very well.
21:41 But anyway, okay.
21:44 So, now we're in the manufacturing workspace and we're in the milling tab because that's using a CNC mill in this case.
21:53 So, the first thing that you want to notice is that Bruce has three different setups down here.
22:01 And then inside each one of those setups, he has all these kind of tool operations or passes, I guess you'd call them.
22:09 And these come from these tabs up here where we have the 2D ones and then the 3D ones as well, depending on what we're kind of trying to achieve.
22:18 In these setups as well, if I just jump in here and edit them, he hasn't set up a machine.
22:23 I guess he doesn't need to for whatever he's working with.
22:27 But you can see here this kind of opaque yellow box around it.
22:31 That is the stock size that he started with.
22:35 So, it fits apart quite well with the excess that gets machined away, obviously.
22:41 So, this is all set up in the correct orientation here.
22:45 And he set up the stock size here to whatever he was working with.
22:52 And that's all you really need to see from that part.
22:56 And then with that setup orientation, so, that'll be in the orientation we see here, the Z-axis will typically be vertical.
23:05 We'll have a look at the tool paths that he used to actually machine it, or the operations rather, once it loads, which hopefully will be soon.
23:19 So basically, with those three setups, if you're not really familiar with machining, is we have one from in this orientation, and then you basically flip it over, machine the underside, and then I think he did one from this side to do the threaded holes and, so on as well.
23:36 So yeah, let's have a little look at that now.
23:38 So, we can see here that we start off and we have these two adaptive clearing processes.
23:46 Then we have a contour, which basically goes around the outside of it, contours the outside.
23:52 Facing operation, flow, which is like a more detailed finishing operation on those kind of 3D surfaces.
24:01 Pocketing, drilling the holes, and tapping as well at the same time, I think.
24:07 And then adding the chamfer, and then one last kind of facing operation for a really good surface finish.
24:14 I don't actually have a photo of these parts.
24:16 I wish I did on the car, but they turned out awesome.
24:20 So, I'll just leave that at that.
24:22 But if I right click on the setup here and we go to simulate, then what we can actually do is press play, and I'll just speed this up slightly.
24:35 And we can basically look at exactly how that's going to be done for each of those operations.
24:41 We will go a bit faster just to kind of see that all kind of take place.
24:45 So, this is setup one, machining it from one side, going through those operations that he's set up there, and basically machining our part from the raw stock.
24:57 So yeah, that's done all that, and that final facing operation.
25:02 If you're a little bit more interested in how each of those is set up, I'll just jump into this edit tool.
25:08 So, basically the tool he's set up here is tooling that he has available to him.
25:14 So, he's got a 12 mil diameter flat end mill, and he set up all the feeds and speeds here, and the settings as well.
25:25 And then he has gone to the geometry tab and selected the geometry that he wants to machine.
25:36 There's not much to look at in this case with this first operation.
25:39 I'll show you another one in just a moment.
25:42 He has his heights here.
25:43 So, clearance height top or retract heights and, so on, and the passes as well shown here of the kind of minimum cutting radius.
25:57 Oh, that's not it.
25:57 But basically the step downs and, so on, that's all captured in here.
26:01 So, any of the stuff like this is obviously gonna take a pretty good understanding of machining and kind of the best way to do things, especially as things get more complicated.
26:12 So yeah, design for manufacturing considerations come into play as always.
26:18 If we just jump through to the flow one, that might be a little bit more something to look at on the geometry tab here.
26:26 So, we can see that he's selected the geometry as those surfaces, and then that's created that kind of flow operation.
26:35 And again, there's the passes and everything set up there as well as the heights and, so on to make sure it's not gonna crash the machine.
26:46 So again, that's the first setup done, and then we'll just look at the other setups.
26:51 So, in this case, again, we can look at simulate here, and that flips it over essentially.
27:01 And then now it's the same idea.
27:04 It's just machining the other side, doing adaptive pocketing, flow operations, chamfers drilling and, so on.
27:12 And then we'll just exit that before that finishes.
27:16 And the third setup here, right click, simulate.
27:26 What have we got? I think it's just the two kind of drilling operations, maybe a bit of tidying up.
27:34 Yep, and then that is the part all finished and machined from the original stock.
27:40 So yeah, after all of that's done with those three setups, you can come in here and go post-process and basically export the machine path, which wouldn't be for BambooLab in that case, but basically exporting G code, NC programs, and those then captured under here.
28:06 It looks like he's done it a couple of times in this case, but I'd imagine it would just be the last three in any case.
28:14 And then those would be loaded to the CNC machine and used from there to do the work.
28:19 But there is a whole lot more you can do here, obviously.
28:24 And if you're familiar with machining, then these will all make sense to you.
28:29 I know the very basics and enough to be dangerous, but not really enough to give you a really good understanding of what you should be doing to machine a part like this.
28:39 So anyway, with that, we will move on.
28:42 Oh, the last thing I wanted to note on this though is that we've actually used this on the desktop router that we have at HPA.
28:54 So, a lot more simple and accessible use for the exact same process.
29:01 There's some really accessible machines coming out with the likes of desktop CNC machines that this could be really suitable for.
29:14 So, it's not just, this isn't only relevant if you have a really expensive CNC mill.
29:22 Obviously, a lot of us aren't going to have access to one or one of our own.
29:27 All right, let's move on from there and we will start having a look at a sheet metal part.
29:34 Again, laser cutting and etching as well at home or water jet machines and plasma machines as well.
29:43 But more, so the laser stuff is really becoming more and more accessible with the likes of XTool is a company that makes some really cool, you know, more affordable options for that.
29:57 Some desktop stuff, some things you just have in your workshop and then the new Bamboo Lab machines as well have some laser cutting and laser etching in them too.
30:06 So yeah, there's a lot happening there and I think you'll see more and more of that soon and it's becoming more and more possible that you might have some of these machines at home.
30:13 So, it's always good to have some CAM ability to be able to control them.
30:18 So, we'll jump into our manufacturing workspace with this and this is just a kind of random shape that I've set up here.
30:27 The idea is that it would actually be a formed gusset to go between the roll cage and these might be dimpled or, so on from there.
30:36 So again, the first thing that we're going to want to be doing is creating a new setup.
30:42 There is some stuff here where you can do some nest studies and, so on.
30:47 So, that's if you have a big sheet of sheet metal as your raw stock, you can do some work to kind of get the optimum nesting if you're cutting a lot of parts out of that sheet and, so on.
30:59 So, there is possibilities to do all that in this software as well.
31:03 But we'll just jump into the setup here and again, we're just going to jump over to the stock tab really quick.
31:09 This is just set it up kind of based on the size of the part here, but you can actually come in here and I don't know if you had a 1500, well, by I'm not even sure what the standard size for a sheet is, but a big sheet of 3mm steel like that and you could position the part within it however, you want it and, so on.
31:36 So, that's kind of the idea there behind setting up the stock size.
31:41 The operation, the machine's not too important again here.
31:46 The operation is going to be cutting and the body is already selected here that we want to cut.
31:52 We'll just go OK with that and then the next step is going to be come on to this 2D, oh, by the way, we're in the fabrication toolbar here.
32:01 It's not a 2D cutting one, but now we select 2D profile cutting here.
32:06 We select the tool that we want to work with.
32:10 So, cutting here, we'll just grab this kind of default laser cutter here, but you can set up your own as well by, or just find in the default library here or set up your own based on the unit, the kerf width and the nozzle diameter and, so on is all shown there.
32:36 But let's just jump in with this and go select.
32:39 So, we've got a tool to work with and then we'd need to set up the feed rates depending on the machine that we're using as well.
32:47 That's all going to be knowledge of whatever machine you're working with.
32:50 In this case, it's got a 1.15 nozzle diameter and then the next thing that we need to do is select the geometry that we're trying to cut.
33:01 So, in this case, we just need to select the profiles that we want to cut out and then heights would be set as well for attract heights and, so on.
33:12 We just need to make sure it obviously clears the top of our sheet.
33:15 So, there's no issues there.
33:17 Passes, I think it's just going to be one pass in this case anyway.
33:22 But there is some other options with stuff you can do there.
33:26 Just trying to keep this moving along quickly for you guys.
33:28 So, I'll go OK.
33:32 And again, that's set up that operation for us and we can jump in here and go simulate.
33:41 Just zoom in a bit, slow this down a touch and we can see how that works through and cuts all those out.
33:51 And we can actually see the little gap from the kerf size that it's made there as well.
33:58 And in this case, it's done the lead in on the material that we want to remove.
34:02 So, that's all ideal in that case anyway.
34:06 But then we could, you know, exit that simulation and from here, post-process, export G-code again, upload that to whatever program is going to be running our laser cutter and go from there and we'd be able to cut our parts out.
34:23 So, that's been a relatively quick look and an introductory look at the manufacturing workspace inside Fusion and the general kind of ideas behind it.
34:36 Let's see if we have any questions that I can answer before we wrap up.
34:42 It doesn't look like this.
34:44 Okay, let's see.
34:47 Selfridge1985, what is HPA's thoughts on 3D printing slicing software and the calling home telemetry transmission of 3D models and IP theft? Just a moment.
35:08 I don't really have too many thoughts.
35:10 On it personally, I know this is a really deep topic for people 3D printing and slicing software and a lot of stuff.
35:20 Yeah, I'm sorry.
35:22 I can't really comment on that.
35:23 We haven't had any issues with anything like that.
35:28 That's a slippery slope, that conversation in terms of all CAD stuff, I think as well.
35:35 So yeah, we're probably not best to give our ideas on it because to be honest, I'm not that kind of educated in that area.
35:44 Anyway, I just use it for making cool car parts and that's kind of what we do with it.
35:49 So, I'll leave it at that and there's no other questions there.
35:51 So yeah, hopefully that's given you some insight into the CAM workspace.
35:56 We'll leave it at that.
35:58 Thanks for watching and we'll be back next week with another one of these webinars.
36:03 Cheers.