I want royalties for this one !!

[fishtruk]

Here's something I haven't seen. If Autodesk and all parties therefore and thereto are commissioned patent and therefore benefit from this of course.

I have a sharpener for end mills. It's got a 5-C collet and the base has 2 angled steps for putting on a surface grinder and sharpening those end mills one-at-a-time (read slow).  I don't use it.

1. I'm too lazy

Moving on. When I buy end mills I often worry (ebay mostly) whether they are centercutting or not.

2. It occurred to me I've never come across this (centercutting) in the tool gizmo in Fusion.

SO   What if I took the old end mills...dull only 1/4 inch up usually (by far) and just ground them down FLAT? I couldn't then use them for any plunging op, BUT if Fusion had specific operations, or being able to specify that a given tool couldn't be used for any plunge at all it would be easy to take those end mills being sold for scrap carbide and get more use out of them. I'm not talking NASA here. I'm talking about me and others who have a personal "dog in the fight" regarding tooling costs. I hate tossing a $50 mill with a dull 1/4 inch.

3. The End

[xander.luciano]

Hey there!

You could make a custom library, and in the comments write "side cutting only" like so:

Then you could use then with a 2D contour operation, or an adaptive where you are only roughing the exterior of the part. I mean, I wouldn't recommend it, but you could do it. I don't know how it would affect the surface finish of the floor.. but if you really wanted to do it, you could.

Edit: actually, unless you are plunging through completely, you would have to have some type of cutting edge on the bottom.
And if you're going to to go through the effort to grind off a quarter inch... why not just sharpen the tool?

Best,
Xander Luciano