recently placed order for 1500mx , can any help how to setup this machine in fusion360
Check out xoomspeed and download David Loomes’ post from there. There is a tormach post available from autodesk in their post library and it does work, but David’s is better.
Beyond that, no real need to set up anything in Fusion. When I first got started I got all hung up on selecting the machine and making sure it’s kinematics and model were all proper but in the end I found that wasn’t really necessary. I imagine for complex 5 axis work it’s probably more helpful to check for clearances or verify that the commanded angles are within the range of the machine’s abilities, but for 3-4 axis stuff, my opinion is it’s not needed.
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This, I rarely use the machine model in Fusion for 3-axis parts and it occasionally causes headaches when there’s an ‘old’ machine model or something somewhere in the part history that can’t be gotten rid of easily.
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For what it’s worth, fusion has a built in post for our machines as well. Look for a post for PathPilot. The same post processor works for all of our mills and routers.
@Ian_Vivero Out of curiosity what is it you consider to be better about David’s post?
-Norman
while exporting a program in fusion its asking to select postprocessor , there I don’t see any option to select Tormach 1500MX. thank you so much for your response
Just wanted to chime in. I use David Loomes’ post for probing inspection (it can do probing and reporting in the status tab), otherwise I use the default PathPilot post.
One thing I hope the default post can do is to allow me to do a G28 at the end of program and leave G30 for tool changes. Right now I am using an edited post with just this change.
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David’s post provides a good bit of additional control and some extra features compared to the Autodesk supplied post. Granted, many of the added features require things like an I/O module (spindle reversing for the 440 would be an example of that).
I suppose I should have qualified my original statement with, David’s post is better than the one that I previously used from Autodesk, which, to be fair, was quite a long time ago so I don’t have a thorough understanding of what that post currently offers and it may very well have caught up on a lot of things.
Off the top of my head, here are some functions that David’s post offers that Autodesk’s did not when I last looked at it:
Use programmable coolant nozzle to clear ETS before checking a tool
Adjustable coolant dwell prior to starting a toolpath (allows coolant to reach the nozzles)
Support for chip breaking tap cycles
Full control over smartcool and multi-cool settings
Full control over retract settings, with options based on M00 and M01 (Z only, Z then xy, G28, G30)
440 spindle reversing (requires an I/O module)
Expansion of canned tapping cycles (for tapping on a 440 once spindle reversing is enabled)
Variety of in cycle ETS controls (check, set, before/after each operation)
Tool changer behavior control (empty spindle, retrieve first tool in preparation for next cycle)
Probing reports (using some additional software that he created)
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No, you wouldn’t. There isn’t a 1500MX specific post. What you want is the Pathpilot post processor which is used for all Tormach machines.
Forgot to mention, I’ve never used the Xoomspeed post, just the included PP one in Fusion. I haven’t had a need for it yet, although I think I downloaded it a while back just in case.