I've nearly finished re-programming the truck project, and I'm finding that it's actually quite a bit faster to manually draw and select features than working with Fusion360's automatic processes.
Though I have to re-program this part, I am by no means regressing the progress I made before, and the small changes I made to the previous operation I can implement directly into the new.
It's a little frustrating at times to be spending so much time working on one project, but I feel it is the best in the long term as I get to practice different machining strategies without having to worry about scrapping a client's work. I'm in a very fortunate situation where the shop has got a lot of downtimes, so I am able to dedicate it to learning and testing out different speeds and feeds.
One of the biggest things I'm learning through this process of re-programming the truck is how much I relied on 3D adaptive toolpaths to do a lot of material removal. Apart from this new method is forcing me to realize that there are other methods that do take at first take a little longer to set up that have a much larger effect on removing material that is better for the tool and run time.
I am quite enjoying thinking outside the box and made a major improvement by manually drawing out contour lines for my endmills to follow. I'm finding that in more complex geometry like 3D surfaces, you can quickly remove bulk material by hand drawing the toolpaths.