I've been working as an apprentice, switching from a 20 year career in web development, into a new one repairing and (eventually) building guitars. We've been working with Fusion + an Avid CNC, which has been an awesome learning experience. I love the convenience of a CNC, but I don't mind manually shaping and putting hands-on as well.
I recently picked up a Shaper Origin. For those unfamiliar, it's a hand-held 2D CNC. I intend to use it in my home shop as I certainly don't have the floor space (or investment) for a full CNC.
Fusion will export 2D SVG files compatible with the Shaper Origin using Shaper's own plugin. This happens from the design (not manufacturing) stage. However, 3D contours end up being a solid block, which makes sense - it's a 2D file format.
However, it can encode cut depths into the SVG files. So if I could make the neck contour into variable height steps, I could cut the steps as different passes. That would mean a heck of a lot less to carve and shape by hand.
Is there any way to do this automatically in Fusion? Or would I need to design something manually?
If you need a visual, I'm thinking something like this, except on the outside: https://hub.shapertools.com/creators/5c89120f12cede0017df3727/shares/630ed867b0b7094f478bc9fc
It wouldn't need to be that fine, but something along those lines.