Tooling Guide
The guide focuses on creating a tool library for a single material, aluminum, which means that all preset names start with “Aluminum”.
If you’d like to set up a different material, simply replace “Aluminum” with any other workable material.
CAM Assist will use suitable Fusion defaults for missing parameters such as cutting data presets, stepdown and stepover values for all recognized tools in a tool library.
However, you may choose to configure all parameters within Fusion.
The guide is split into the following sections:
At the end of the guide
After completing the guide, you'll have a tool library that contains the following:
1 face mill
10 or more end mills (flat or bull)
5 ball mills
A range of drills
1 or 2 spot drills
1 or 2 Engrave/Chamfer mills
After completing the guide, take a look at the Using CAM Assist section, which explains the layout of the CAM Assist UI and details each of its features.
How many tools do you need?
CAM Assist works best on medium to large tool libraries with well organized feeds and speeds. While you can use CAM Assist with a small number of tools, the system will try to make the best of the limited available options, which often results in something unexpected.
Unless you know exactly which tools are needed to machine a given part, it’s not recommended to use CAM Assist with small tool libraries.
CAM Assist’s ‘Tool Use’ tab provides a streamlined, at-a-glance, view of ‘allowed' materials and usages (operations) for each tool in the selected tool library (for details, see Tool Use).
If you get stuck
If you get stuck at any point while reading this guide, remember you can compare the your tool library with the built-in sample tools to help understand the difference (see the General tab).