Tools Tab

Sections

The Tools tab contains the following sections:

Tooltips contain useful information on the purpose and use of features within the Tools tab. To see a tooltip, just hover over a feature.

For more details on each of the above features, see below

Option	Details	How to Use
Material	CAM Assist selects tools, machining strategies, and cutting parameters suitable for this material.	Select a material from the drop-down.

Option

Details

How to Use

Tool source

CAM Assist produces operations using the tools that are included in the selected ‘Tool source’.

CAM Assist provides three choices:

Tools from session - the tools that are available in the current Siemens NX session.
Built-in Metric toolset - built-in CloudNC CAM Assist tools with metric units.
Built-in Imperial toolset - built-in CloudNC CAM Assist tools with imperial units.

The Tool Usages tab provides at-a-glance information on how each tool in the selected ‘Tool Source’ will be used by CAM Assist (see Tool Usages Tab).

Select a Tool Source from the drop-down.

Export Tools to Session

You can only select one tool library at a time to run CAM Assist.

Enables a hybrid selection of tools (that is, the tools associated with the part file plus tools added to the session manually).

After clicking ‘Export Tools to Session’, the tools should be visible in the ‘Machine Tool View’ of the ‘Operation Navigator’.

For a hybrid selection of tools: