Review a program

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Review a program.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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review and simulate a CAM program in fusion 3 60

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review tools in a CAM program

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to get started in fusion 3 60.

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Let's carry on with the design from our previous example.

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At this point, we've created a new setup called

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one video,

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but we want to navigate back to O P one and make sure that we activate this setup.

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We want to make sure that we understand the information that we can see

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directly in the browser as well as how we can review the tool path created

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for this.

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I'm gonna pull it over to the right,

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just a little bit to make sure visibility is a little bit better

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and then minimize our soft jaw

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and our

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two setups,

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we see a preview of the stock on the screen.

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But once we begin selecting through the different tool paths,

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we can see that the material removed is being shown on the screen.

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And this is what's called in

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process stock

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in process stock can be shown at the very bottom by

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toggling on tool path visibility as well as stock visibility.

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I'm gonna turn off the transparent stock option

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and go back through and select each of these

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notice that with transparent stock turned off,

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we're not seeing the part underneath only the tool paths that are being used.

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You can use the shortcut keys F seven to toggle the visibility of

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the tool paths and F eight to toggle the visibility of the stock.

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We also have options to do things like turn

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on tool visibility and even show tool on cursor.

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This can be helpful especially if we have the tool visible.

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So for example, if we're showing the tool holder and shaft,

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we can hold this up and make sure that the tool that we're

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using is long enough to get to the geometry we're trying to machine.

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This is shown based on the selected tool path. So you can see here.

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Tool number seven is a half inch end mill.

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We get a preview of where the cutting flute portion of the tool is as well as

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the holder at the very top to make sure that we are accessing everything on our part.

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We can go back down and turn off the show tool on cursor,

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but still show the tool as well as the holder.

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Once again, we can activate

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one to go back to our name view or we can expand our name

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view folder and just simply click on one to show our name view.

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When we take a look at the information in the browser,

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we can see that T seven is displayed next to this tool path.

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And the name inside rough, the name was changed after the tool path was created.

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And T seven represents the tool that's being used for this tool path.

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If we expand this, we can see that tool seven is a half inch flat.

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We can see the W CS that's being used the size of

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the tool path and that it's based on a pocket selection.

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If we expand the second one, we can see again, it's using tool seven

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where the W CS is located the size of the tool path.

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And it's based on a pocket selection. Again,

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as we keep going through,

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we can see the selection process that's been used contour selection,

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a contour selection

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and any time there's a change in tool paths or tools,

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you can see that change here as well.

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These tools can also be seen inside of the tool library.

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And if we go up to our managed section and select tool library,

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we can see our documents,

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we can see the document that's currently active and we can

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see each operation to figure out which tools are being used.

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For example, in order to machine the soft jaws,

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we're using a quarter inch and a half inch flat end mil.

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However, for

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one, we're only using the half inch flat and a quarter inch

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MLL

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for APP two, we're using the same And because we haven't created any tool paths in

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one video, no data is shown here.

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Impro stock is not the only way that we have to review tool pa data.

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We can select individual tool paths or entire setups and

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we can go to our actions menu and select simulate

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inside of simulate.

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We have some additional options that we don't have for in processed stock.

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For example,

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the colorization can be based on a comparison showing

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red areas that too much material has been removed,

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green areas where we've removed exactly enough material or blue areas.

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If stock is remaining,

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we can also change this based on tool.

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Meaning every time we have a tool change, the colorization changes.

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So that way you can identify areas of

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your design that have been cut with specific tools

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can also change the colorization by operation

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or we can leave it a single material color.

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We can toggle on and off the tool path with various options.

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Things like showing our linking and lead moves or cutting moves or points,

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we can toggle off the tool path and we can even

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toggle off the tool or various portions of the tool.

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If we require,

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the view is going to determine whether or not the model moves and

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the tool stay stationary or the tool moves and the model stay stationary,

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we can also change the opacity of our fixture and our model

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if we hold the left mouse button down in the screen,

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we can begin manually dragging through the tool path.

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We can also manually click on areas at the bottom.

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Noting that they change based on the tool operation or tool path being used.

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We also would see red areas if there was a collision

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and we can play through this animating the material removal.

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There are other options that we can see such as display,

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inspect and some tool options.

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Some of these are duplicated over here on the right hand side.

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While others such as the inspect options are new,

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there is an info section which will give you the current position of the tool.

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It'll let you know the current spindle speed, whether it's a feed or

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a linking move, it'll tell you what the tool is,

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the operation is and the programming time,

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we can also go to our statistics section seeing that

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the overall machining time of this is under two minutes,

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the distance that we're being machined

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the operations and the total number of tool changes.

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The vast majority of these are using tool number seven with only the champ

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for mail being used at the end to deeper the top of the part.

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At any point in time, we can exit the simulation

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and go back and make any adjustments or changes that we

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need to any of the tool paths and then rerun our simulation

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at this point. Let's go ahead and make sure that we do save this data set.

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Before moving on.