Isn’t the whole maker ideal to be moving ideas to commercial products? The day they make Fusion CAM a pay for product Fusion is no longer an option for many. The other issue is I am doing a prototype for a possible commercial product. The issue with Fusion is I don’t want to learn Fusion if I have Solidworks or you name the any other design product. Not sure what would be a good path to follow, maybe create a postprocessor that could take something popular like Mach3 code and process it into Marlin code. Marlin isn’t used for CNC enough to be an option in most programs. Fusion isn’t good enough as the only choice. In my A350 it says it is CNC is alpha software in Luban. No matter with Autocad slowly making Fusion a pay for product we need help with Marlin and post processing. I don’t have Solidworks CAM so I don’t know if you have an equivalent option in Solidworks to the TurboCNC V3 mm post processor in MeshCam. And suspect I may find other issues over time. I just need to add spindle command to get the gcode to run coming out of MeshCam. I got lucky and found someone who had gone through all of the post processors and found one that worked but not perfect. The guy at MeshCAM told me he didn’t want to do a post processor for Marlin because his experience trying to create one in the past was bad. One odd thing, running the boundary ck prior to printing causes the A350 to crash. description: Generic Snapmaker Marlin v20180725ĭoesn’t seem to matter what is in the commented out lines.

Maybe someone more familiar could figure out what the Fusion post processor is doing. It would be good if some guidance to post processing would be provided. I deleted the entries before the first move in the MeshCam file and copied the ' Header' entries from a fusion GCode file. Took awhile but I finally found if I save the GCode as TurboCNC V3 mm in MeshCam the GCode files are formatted so Marlin is happy enough with the output.ĭid need to add a command to turn on the spindle “M3 P100” to the top of the GCode. Not going to pay annually for Fusion for the rest of my life, plus I prefer my 2014 Solidworks without ongoing costs. For those looking for an alternative to Fusion 360.

Solidworks free alternative