Getting Started with CAM Assist

Owned by Kevin Strider
Last updated: Apr 17, 2024
3 min read

Getting Started with CAM Assist is a simple 4-step process:

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Getting Started in 4 simple steps

If you follow along with the videos and/or step-by-step instructions featured below, you’ll use CAM Assist to generate a toolpath strategy for a demo part, using a [built-in] tool library.

This guide assumes that you have already installed CAM Assist:

Getting Started videos

The following videos show how you can ‘get started’ with CAM Assist using ‘3-Axis’ and '3+2 Axis' machining modes.

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Getting Started using the 3-Axis Machining Mode (click to play in YouTube)

Step-by-step instructions

Step 1 - Open a ‘Demo' part’

The ‘Demo’ parts are available from the CAM Assist panel, which is located at the right-hand end of Fusion’s ‘Manufacture’ ribbon.

  1. Hover over ‘Open a Demo Part’.

  2. Select one of the ‘Demo' parts:

    • Demo 1-3 - suitable for 3-Axis machining.

    • Demo 4 - suitable for 3+2 Axis machining modes.

  3. The selected ‘Demo’ part opens in Fusion in an aptly-named new tab.

For more detailed instruction on how to use the Demo parts, see:

 

 

Step 2 - Select a ‘Tool library’ and ‘Target setup’

 

  1. Open CAM Assist

  1. For Tool library:

    • Select ‘[Built-in] CloudNC CAM Assist Sample Tool (Inch)’

  2. For Target setups:

    • Ensure that at least one of the Setups is checked (for example, ‘Setup1’).

Step 3 - Check ‘Tool library’ configuration

 

  1. Open the Tool use tab.

Step 4 - Click Run

 

After you’ve clicked Run, CAM Assist:

  • Closes its user interface.

  • Uses the CAM Assist configuration to compute a toolpath strategy, which is applied to the each ‘Target Setup’ in the Fusion Browser (see image to the right).

 

Next step

This guide showed you how to use one of CAM Assist’s built-in sample tool libraries to generate a toolpath strategy for a Demo part.