Avoid collisions

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In this lesson, we'll learn how to avoid collisions.

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to use shaft and holder to avoid part collisions.

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In Fusion 360, we want to carry on with our generative forming tool frame.

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We're going to edit flow three and in the tool section, we want to turn on shaft and holder clearance.

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Without any other adjustments, we are going to say ‘okay’ and allow it to recalculate this operation.

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Once the operation has completed generating it, note that it will take a little bit longer than it would if it was just the flow without collision.

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Let's go ahead and take a look at simulate and see if it was able to accurately represent the operation without colliding with any stock.

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So now you'll notice that the bottom, we have no red lines.

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Everything was generated without the holder or the shaft hitting any of the part where it wasn't supposed to cut.

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So if we play through, we can see that it moves back and forth,

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and it does some clearance operations where it rapids away from the part and moves back in.

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But this was a successful operation making sure that the holder itself does not collide with the part, and this is exactly what we would want to see.

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Now there are complexities with the strategy.

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The more passes you have, the more geometry that is obscuring, the harder it's going to be for the software to calculate where that tool needs to go.

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So keep in mind that there are limitations, and there are certainly processor demands that are needed any time we go to these advanced type features,

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and we have to calculate those collisions.

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But for this example, let's go ahead and save the design, so we can move on.