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How to Read Fusion 360 Post Processor G-code
Read Fusion 360 output in blocks: header and safety line, tool change, spindle and coolant, rapid to start, cutting moves, retract, end. The comments are your map.
Lawrence Arya··10 min
Posts tagged Fusion 360 from the G-Code Sprint team.
Read Fusion 360 output in blocks: header and safety line, tool change, spindle and coolant, rapid to start, cutting moves, retract, end. The comments are your map.
Fusion 360's post asks how to retract: G28 moves through a waypoint you command, G53 goes straight to machine coordinates. The decision and the reasons.
When Fusion 360 outputs wrong G-code, the toolpath is almost never the problem: the post processor is. The four mismatch types and the fix ladder.
ChatGPT edits to Fusion 360 .cps posts fail in patterned ways: invented API functions, misplaced logic, version drift. The repair method that works.