topic How do you import 3rd party tool libraries in HSM Forum

How do you import 3rd party tool libraries

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:18:35 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm quite new to CAM and HSM as an add-on to inventor. I am trying to work my way through a series of tutorials which are delivered by a shop using Fusion360.

I would prefer to stay in Inventor and use HSM to do the CAM programming. The issue i am having is importing the toolset which they use as part of the learning.

They are provided as .tools files which 360 reads without an issue but inventor can't seem to do anything with.

I suppose my questions are:

What format does HSM use for tool libraries?
What is the best way to convert .tools libraries into the HSM format?
Did anyone in the HSM dev team think.... we already have this established mechanism for tools and their information lets not reinvent the wheel.

Cheers,

James

Re: How do you import 3rd party tool libraries

jeff.pek — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:46:08 GMT

Hi -

The tool library as supported in Inventor HSM is an XML-based format, with the extension ".hsmlib". Fusion360 can export this format, so if you are using a library in Fusion, you should be able to save it as .hsmlib, and just add it into your libraries in Inventor. The "personal" libraries are in the "My Documents/My Libraries" folder, so if you put the exported file into that directory, then it should just show up in Inventor HSM. Other approaches are available, e.g., Tab-separated values, for getting tool data into Inventor HSM from other sources.

Jeff

Re: How do you import 3rd party tool libraries

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:22:56 GMT

Magic.

Thanks Jeff, i'll give it a whirl when i get home this evening.

Cheers,

James

Re: How do you import 3rd party tool libraries

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:41:19 GMT

1) Switch to "Design"

2) Select "Manage" on the upper bar

3) Select "Tool library"

4) Right click "Local" and select "New tool library" or "Import tool library"

5) Locate your .tools file and that should do it

Re: How do you import 3rd party tool libraries

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:47:43 GMT

1) Switch to "Design"

2) Select "Manage" on the upper bar

3) Select "Tool library"

4) Right click "Local" and select "New tool library" or "Import tool library"

5) Locate your .tools file and that should do it