topic Re: Additional Tool in SetUp Sheet in Fusion Manufacture Forum

Additional Tool in SetUp Sheet

mattdlr89 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:18:23 GMT

Hi All,

I'm wondering if it's possible to get additional tools in the set up sheet that are not used in any operations in Fusion.

At the moment I have a job where there are some additional operations that are hand coded and I use a manual NC pass through to call up a sub program that uses a tool not used in any of the Fusion generated ops. When I create a set up sheet (i'm using the Excel one through the post processor) I want to include this tool that's only used in the sub program. I can easily add this to the Fusion library but I can't see a way to get it included in the set up sheet.

Is there anything I'm missing?

Thanks

Matt

Re: Additional Tool in SetUp Sheet

Ketherton21 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 19:14:20 GMT

since nobody answered you yet, and since I don't know of a better way, maybe just write an extremely pointless toolpath with that tool so it will generate in your setup sheet? make it optional and use block skip?

i haven't done setup sheets in forever and even when I did it was on mastercam like 5 years ago.

Re: Additional Tool in SetUp Sheet

seth.madore — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:59:08 GMT

The Setup Sheets are configured to only show tools that are actually in use in the Fusion document. What @Ketherton21 suggests is the best method of displaying those extra tools.

Re: Additional Tool in SetUp Sheet

emlyn.stansbie — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 14:30:28 GMT

Hi @Ketherton21, @mattdlr89

This is a REALLY bad suggestion and not something I would want to output and give the NC program to the machine user and rely on them pushing/selecting the block skip function on the machine. Even if you do have the selected tool cutting away from the part in the machine!! This is wasted cycle time especially if you have lots of manually entered tools in your program!

A suggestion would be to select the tool in Fusion you'd like to include in the setup sheet, program an operation with the said tool and then put 2 'pass through' commands either side of that operation. (Please note, I don't output line numbers in my NC code!)

The first pass through reads "GOTO N200"

The second reads N200

There are several other ways to skip code but I think this is the simplest.

Depending on your control this would enable you to basically ignore/skip the NC code for that tool you require in your setup sheet.

Or better still, it would be great if the Fusion developers gave us way of including manually added tools to the setup sheets 😉