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Roughing pass

Roughing pass - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Roughing pass

- [Narrator] All right. It's the moment we've all been waiting for. We're finally ready to make our first tool path. Now the first tool path we're going to to create is going to be a roughing path that is going to take away a majority of our stock material and reveal a rough outline of what our final model will look like. To do this, I'm going to use a cutting strategy called parallel. Now, there's a few different strategies you could use to hog out this material, but I find that parallels usually the fastest option. So, a parallel cutting strategy create a straight path, moving back and forth along our material. Incrementing one step down with each pass, and it will become a little bit more clear how that works once we get a render of this path. To get started, let's select this. And in our first window, it's asking us to select a tool. So I'm going to go to select, and we've already done that hard work of creating our…

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