CAM Assist's Layout

The following screenshot shows the top-level layout and features of CloudNC CAM Assist for Fusion.

CAM Assist’s layout - showing the 'General’ tab with collapsed sections

As shown in the screenshot above, CAM Assist’s top-level layout has the following features.

Feature	Description

Feature

Description

Top banner

Contains the add-on title ‘CloudNC CAM Assist’.

CAM Assist can be collapsed and expanded in the same way as other aspects of Fusion’s user interface.

3 Tabs

CAM Assist's presents its core features and functionality via a set of three tabs (as shown in the above screenshot):

General - enables you to specify which Fusion ‘Tool library’ and ‘Stock material’ is to be used to compute a CAM Assist strategy (see General Tab).
Tool Use - provides an at-a-glance summary of the materials and usages (operations) available to tools in the selected toolset (see Tool Use Tab).
Advanced - contains advanced configuration options for: Toolpath types, Geometry, Roughing, Finishing, and Deburring (see Advanced Tab).

Bottom banner

Contains the following:

Information icon (white 'i' inside a black circle) - opens this User Guide.
Run - creates a toolpath strategy for the model (based on the options chosen in the 3 tabs).
Cancel - cancels all choices made within CAM Assist for the selected model, closes CAM Assist, and returns to Fusion.

Resize and reposition

Resize

The CAM Assist interface can be resized to whatever is most convenient. The size is stored when CAM Assist 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

CAM Assist can be positioned anywhere within the desktop (it is not confined to the Fusion window).

To reposition CAM Assist, drag the top banner to the desired position: it can be docked within the Fusion interface.