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Making pocket cuts

Making pocket cuts - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Making pocket cuts

- [Instructor] We're now ready to create our very first cut operation. Now, I know that there's going to be three operations needed in order to create this specific part. We're going to need to cut pockets for each of the bottle openings, we're going to run a contour around to clean that cut up and then we'll run another contour to actually cut this piece out of the stock. We'll begin by starting with a 2D pocket so we can select the 2D dropdown and you'll see a number of operations that are available for us to select from. If you hover over any of these, you'll see a little tool tip pop up that shows you generally what this operation will do. This comes in really handy for those who are just getting started. It certainly helped me. When we're ready, we'll run a contour. This is the command that I was saying would cut this out of the stock but again, we're going to start with a 2D pocket. You'll see that we get a…

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