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If you are pressed for time, you can skip Face mills. CAM Assist will work well without any Face mills in your tool library, you simply won’t get facing toolpaths generated at the beginning of your program. |
The CAM Assist Face Milling strategy produces separate roughing and finishing passes with your face millsmill, depending on how much stock needs to be removed. For each face mill, Therefore, you will need two cutting data Presets are needed:
Roughing
Finishing
Note - CAM Assist Cutting Parameters currently does not output feeds and speeds for indexable tools, like face mills. Tool library parameters for toolsets requires a Preset.
Example
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Follow the example set with tool 12701 when configuring face mills in tool libraries. |
In the CAM Assist [inch].tooldb file, that is provided with CAM Assist, tool 12701 is a face mill. In the Mastercam Tool Manager, the Cutting Tool is defined:
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The tool is also defined as part of the Tool Assembly:
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Lastly, Tool 12701 has two Cut Parameters (Presets) defined for Aluminum:
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These Preset values define the feeds and speeds that are used by CAM Assist when the face mill 12701 is selectedpresets on your face mill tool.
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Stepdown and Stepover
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If stepdown and stepover values are not specified (and you have used the Tool Use tab to ‘allow’ the tool to be used) then CAM Assist will ensure that suitable cutting data parameters are provided for the machining operation. |
If you would prefer to specify the stepdown and stepover values, in Fusion, yourself then you will need two cutting data presets:
Aluminum - Roughing - used for the initial facing passes.
Aluminum - Finishing - used for the final pass to bring the stock down to finished size.
Then specify stepdown and stepover values for each of the above presets in Fusion.
Typically, you would want a smaller stepdown for the Finishing preset, and a larger stepdown for the Roughing preset.