Fusion 360 - Pretty Bad Spot W. Hard Drive Died - Ask LarsLive 

A Maxtor 80GB C: drive crackled and totally died several years ago, a big IC had gone up in smoke and found out that this was a known fault due to manufacturing issue of the spindel IC but only happened during unusual circumstances like if the hard drive was shut off but started again a very few seconds after before the disks had come to a stop. New board were nowhere to be found since this hard drive was very new so Instead I searched for the IC and found it at a chinese seller that was willing to only send me 2. The IC that was on the board was version 1.0, this new one was 1.2 so I had my hopes up it would never happened again. I exchanged them with each other and the hard drive booted like nothing had happened and I was so happy and now with the new chip the fault issue could not be repeated. the hard drive worked many years until I bought a much bigger one. But I still have the hard drive somewhere and I know it works. The chip incl skipping cost like 2 dollar.

Architectural & Mechanical Designing Solution i I think you will find Mach 3 or 4 to be the most common but there are others . Fusion 360 with its CAD abilities works perfectly with the Mach programmes.

Aloha that is a very open ended question a lot of that depends on the machine and scale you will be machining on as well as the type of work you are doing. Ian mentioned the Mach programs which have a large following with the DIY machines and drivers. Tormach uses Pathpilot Multicam uses Enroute for the sign industry, Fusion 360 (AutoDesk) supports hundreds of machines, Vectric is another family of tools. It sort of depends on Budget, Machines, designs, industry; that you are working in. Some programs are tuned to an industry or process and some can't do certain tasks without a lot of "playing around"

All storage will fail at some point. Always make two backups....it may seem inconvenient, but losing important data is much worse.

Yes, of course always backup. We all forget to do this, and it's important. My laptop started doing these scratching sounds, like an old fan would do. Scared the hell out of me because I knew where this is going. This is when I "remembered" that I didn't backup for a long time. (I do have a WD Passport external drive just for this!). I ordered the Samsung 860 EVO, and while waiting I got that boot thingy not found. Luckily I got the SSD and replaced it before a disaster happened. I know SSDs die too. I'm curious if yours just suddenly died, or did it deteriorate and you had signs that it is going to die. Maybe a second SSD and doing a cloning backup every couple of weeks. Having a cloned SSD is so much safer than having a "backup". It's a direct swap and you are up and running in half an hour in a laptop.

@@danl.4743 You can count on an SSD to fail without warning much more often than not and they are much more difficult to recover data from than mechanical hard drives. Good backup strategy is often and multiple copies....even off site storage if it is mission critical stuff.

@@wojtek-33 Jamie, I am interested to know what size was the 950 you had, and how much data you had on it? From what I was researching now it is explained that the more empty space the DDS has, the longer its life will be. And the less free space it has, the shorter its life will be.

@@wojtek-33 Mine is 1TB and of it, 900gb on the C: partition, 665 free. 0.5TB written in a few days that I have it, but that includes the 250GB cloning that I did twice (because it didn't clone the D: (system) drive the first time. I'll keep an eye on it with the SMART app. Thanks for the info. I learned quite a lot today.

It's a HAAS control box.

@@danl.4743 Thanks ... looked up HAAS, and now I understand.

@@garthhowe297 You didn't hear of HAAS before?

@@danl.4743 I had heard of HAAS racing, but I never worked in an industry related to HAAS equipment, so I didn't know what they did.

@@garthhowe297 Oh I see. The reason I asked is that HAAS Automation youtube channel has a "Tip of the day" videos with a ton of useful teaching information for CNC machinists. I couldn't understand from your post if you are going into that industry or if you're using Fusion360 for something else. Anyway, if you're into machining, that channel is highly recommended.

I do fusion and other stuff, what do you need?

Just on my way out If I can get back to later on ,Thankyou @@felixman9691

I have an stl file of a Quadcopter canopy. Its approx. 2mm thick when printed off I wanted to edit this and make the walls lets say 3.5mm thick. As when printing it off ,it gives a more sturdy feel and more protection and this it printed in TPU flexible Thanks @@felixman9691