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Before continuing, if you’re not familiar with the Cycle Time Estimator, it’s recommended you take a look at the Introduction and Overview.

Features and Functionality

Tip

To magnify any image/screenshot, just click it.

The following screenshot shows the layout and features of the Cycle Time Estimator.

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As shown in the above screenshot, the layout for The features of the Cycle Time Estimator has are listed in the following featurestable.

Feature

Description

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Contains the add-on title ‘Cycle Time Estimator’.

The Cycle Time Estimator can be collapsed and expanded (in the same way as other aspects of Fusion’s user interface)

4 Tabs

The Cycle Time Estimator presents its

core

features and functionality via a set of four tabs (as shown in the above screenshot):

  • Upload - enables you to:

    • Upload up to 10 Fusion part files

(see Upload Tab)
estimate

  • estimates, which is

performed on

  • populated after clicking Run

(see Cycle Time Estimates Tab)

  • .

  • Report - provides a summary report of the cycle time estimate, which is

performed on

  • created after clicking Run

(see Report Tab)

  • .

  • Export - enables you to export any of the Cycle Time Estimates, as a CSV (comma-separated values) file, to a designated folder

(see Export Tab).

About CAM Assist

Shows the version number (also see the ‘About’ option of the CAM Assist Panel)

  • .

For more information on each of the tabs, click on the tab’s name in the above bullet point list.

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Contains the following:

  • Run - creates a cycle time estimate, and a toolpath strategy, based on the specified ‘Options’, for each of the Fusion part files that have been uploaded/selected.

  • Cancel - cancels and closes all choices made within the Cycle Times Estimator and returns to Fusion.

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Resize and reposition

Resize

Info

The Cycle Time Estimator interface can be resized to whatever is most convenient. The size is stored when the Cycle Time Estimator is closed and reused the next time it’s opened.

To resize CAM Assist, click and drag any edge of its interface to the required size (the resize icon will be displayed when the action is available).

Reposition

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The Cycle Time Estimator can be positioned anywhere within the desktop (it is not confined to the Fusion window).

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