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Cura takes an STL file as the input. Try to output an STL file from autodesk fusion 360. Then cura creates the gcode file as *output*. It can indeed read one in just to see (kind of) what the print will look like but it can't do anything other than display it.
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Cura takes an STL file as the input. Try to output an STL file from autodesk fusion 360. Then cura creates the gcode file as *output*. It can indeed read one in just to see (kind of) what the print will look like but it can't do anything other than display it.
The *printer* takes the gcode file as input.
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