The maze I made was a well thought out process. I drew out the rough shape of it first and extruded it to .75" I didn't know how I was going to make it but I knew I had to make a simple path first. I made the one way path from start to finish and then added the different ways to mess with the user of the maze. After I did that I offset the lines to .25" and extruded to .25". We then had to upload the maze to Fusion 360 and set up the tool path so that the machine knew how to cut the maze out. After setting up the tool path, we simulated the cutting process to make sure everything worked. One the simulation could be completed we saved the G code to our H Drive and then to a flash drive. The flash drive was plugged into the router's computer and the bit was set up at the bottom left corner of the foam. Before this, the foam was stuck onto a wood sheet to keep it from moving while the bit was cutting. It took about 20 minutes to cut and had some foam dust all over it so I took it to the woods shop and blew it off with the air compressor. It was done and ready to be used!
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This project was my introduction to Fusion 360 and I feel I learned a lot about how CNC works and how to set the machines up to be ran. As frustrating as this project was, it was fairly fun and yielded great results. Another tool I learned from this project was the offset tool. I would have done some cooler stuff with my 3D Print project if I would have experimented with it before this project. All in all, this project was fun and I learned a lot about CNC and Fusion 360 and how to transfer those findings to the mill project.