Create a cutting tool library

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Create a cutting tool library.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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create a new tool library, copy and paste,

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cutting tools and edit cutting tool parameters.

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In fusion 3 60 we want to begin by navigating to our manufacture workspace.

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We're going to be creating a new tool library that contains a laser cutting tool.

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For our part,

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we're going to begin by going to manage and going into the tool library

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in the cloud section.

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We're going to right click and create a new

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library and we're gonna call this module laser.

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We wanna make sure that we are saving either to the cloud or locally.

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That way we can reuse those tools if you don't see the cloud library.

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For some reason, make sure that you go into your user preferences.

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You wanna navigate to the manufacturer section and

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make sure that enable cloud libraries is checked.

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Once you have a new library created under the module laser,

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we're going to right click and then we're going to

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select the plus icon to create a new tool.

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Notice in the cutting section that we have Waterjet laser cutter and plasma,

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there's one other way that we can start a tool

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and that is going down into our fusion 3 60 library

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and we can begin filtering by cutting

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and we can identify either inch or metric tools that we want to use.

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We're gonna select the inch laser cutter, right click and copy tool,

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then going back up into our module laser,

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we're going to right click and paste the tool.

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You can either copy one from the Fusion 3 60 library or start from scratch.

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But it's always important to make sure that the tool has all the correct parameters

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under the cutter. Notice that we have laser cutter, plasma cutter and water jet.

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The units are set to inch and the nozzle diameter

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is 0.05 inches with a curve width of 0.015.

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This is gonna be important as some of the cuts on our part are relatively small.

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We want to make sure that we have these values set properly.

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Next,

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we have holder settings and it's going to be a default laser

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cutter head and no changes are going to be made here.

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Next,

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we're going to move over to the cutting data and these are going

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to be the default values that are used for feeds and speeds.

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This is going to allow us to dictate the cut height,

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the pierce height as well as the power that's used.

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This is going to be based again on your specific machine.

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So ensure that these power values the pierce time as

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well as the pressure and assist gas are properly set.

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Last is gonna be the post processor setting.

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There's not going to be a tool changer.

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In this case, we're going to leave this number at zero and select accept.

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Now,

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this laser cutter tool is going to be inside of our cloud

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library and available anywhere that we log into fusion 3 60.

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But it's always important that you do keep and maintain a library of

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the appropriately sized tools for any type of manufacture that you're doing.

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Whether it's laser cutting

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CNC lathe

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or if you're talking about CNC milling,

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make sure that the tools do replicate and match the physical

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tools that you have available to you in your shop.

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At this point,

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we can close the tool library and this is going

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to be automatically saved in the cloud for us.

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So nothing needs to be done with this design.

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We can go ahead and move on to the next step.