Doesn’t work with hobby licence
I recently had an article printed in the BHI monthly Journal where I detailed using Gearwheel Designer to create a clock wheel and how the resulting design could be imported into Fusion using a DXF import. This would allow manipulation of the file for creating the CAM machining code.
I have a friend who uses the hobby ‘free use’ of Fusion and he was struggling to import a DXF by this method. After some exploration we decided that DXF import on Fusion was not allowed for the free hobby version. This is not clearly obvious when you look at the Autodesk site.
With this in mind we collectively investigated the differences involved using the licenced and licence free version of Fusion. This resulted in a workaround solution whereby the STL export from Gearwheel Designer can be used instead. This can create a solid model in Fusion for onward processing for 3D printing and for CAM programming.
Rather than have a long post I have detailed the process in the attached PDF write up.
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