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How to Create Cut Configs

Cut Configs capture your machining preferences, define tool eligibility, and match preset cutting parameters to different types of operations

Cut Configs are your "control center" for Toolpath. Through Cut Configs, you'll capture machining preferences, define tool eligibility, and dial in your cutting parameters for specific part materials and machines.

Let's break Cut Configs down into 2 main purposes:

  1. Capturing General Machining & Estimate Settings
  2. Managing Tool Selection

Capturing General Machining & Estimate Settings

In the Overview page of a Cut Config, you define your shop’s default machining behavior and costing inputs. This includes selecting or creating part materials, stock configurations, and estimate presets, along with setting key CAM preferences like stock to leave, tolerances, drilling behavior, and tool limits. These settings establish a baseline for how Toolpath generates programs and estimates for a given material and machine. 

Please see the video below for a walkthrough of all the Overview page settings!

 

Managing Tool Selection

By enabling tool libraries and managing cutting roles in a Cut Config, you'll tell Toolpath:

  1. what tools are available,
  2. which machining operations they can perform,
  3. how they'll perform the cutting operation (speeds and feeds)

You can upload .TOOLS or .JSON Fusion tool libraries to Toolpath, or create tool libraries inside of Toolpath. 

Once a tool library is uploaded or created, you'll define the cutting roles for the selected material by generating or applying presets to cutting roles. After presets are created and applied to cutting roles, you'll have a solid foundation to refine for the needs of your shop.

Prioritizing libraries and starring roles for specific tools will help you refine Toolpath results to approach tool selection more like you do on the shop floor.

Please see the video below for all the details on working with tool libraries in cut configs.  We'll go through:

  1. Creating, Uploading, and Organizing (Prioritizing) Tool Libraries
  2. Defining which tools are eligible for which operations by generating preset cutting parameters and mapping them to cutting roles
  3. Using Vendor Libraries as Tool Recommendations
  4. Editing Tools and Cutting Parameters