Rotary disappointments

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There is this post that can help:

Using any-shaped material with a (Snapmaker) rotary module

Using any-shaped material with a (Snapmaker) rotary module Usually rotary modules for CNC routers and the software used to create the tool-paths for such modules assume that you are using perfectly cylindrical material. It is often much easier to start from differently shaped material since for example square shaped wood blocks are far more common (and cheaper) than cylindrical ones. Therefore I want to present in this article my approach to break these cylindrical limitations. [image] Let’…

And it is actually possible to use the Free version of Fusion360, but it takes some extra work. Small manual edits to the gcode, but definitely doable. The trick is to use multiple origins and it’s not really rotary cutting, but you can relatively easily mill from different sides.