Turning Tool Model Import

[jordanmach]

My shop has generally been a mill shop. I do have some turned parts we make, however these have all been programed 10+ years ago by an old employee on old software and we have made ZERO changes to the programs over the years. Well we now own a new ST-20Y w/ live tooling and sub spindle and are now going to start bringing in more lath parts. With this, I am seeing that turning tools in fusion are extremely generic. Most companies offer a 3D file of they're tools that you can import. However I am not sure how to do this in Fusion. I tried looking this up, but I can only find how to do this with mill tools using a script. I haven't tried yet, but thought maybe it would work with turn tools as well but wanted to check first. With mill tools you make the cylinder that holds the tool the "Z" axis, and make the hole face the origin. That makes sense. Doesn't matter the orientation at all around the "Z" axis as its a round tool. Using this idea in a turn tool is more complex. Would I make the screw that goes through the center of the insert "Z", or "Y" axis? What if the insert doesn't have a center screw and is clamped in from the side? I am curious how fusion will line up the insert on the holder? Mill into a tool holder makes so much sense. But turning is new to me, and especially in Fusion, and I am already running into generation/simulation issues where the generic holder hits material while in reality it wont..... Or.... I HOPE it wont lol I just would like to import the models to be certain. Thank you all for the help.

[johnswetz1982]

You cant at this time.

[jordanmach]

Wow thats bad. My research points that Fusion sucks for lathe. However I was really hoping I could manually import my own tool holders one at a time. I am willing to do leg work, but if its not even possible for the user to do it on theyre own, then this is a Major flaw. Thank you for clarifying. I sure hope they fix this soon.

[seth.madore]

It's on the long list of turning improvements being worked on. I can't give a timeline of when this will improve, but the dev team is well aware of this deficiency.

[MrichardCMSI]

Has this ever been solved, or is it still on the list two years later? 

[jordanmach]

Has not been solved, to my knowledge that it is. Hopefully its still on the "list", because being able to draw up or import your tool would make programming a lot easier to see.

[seth.madore]

We are actively working on tasks surrounding this issue. It's very high on our list of things to solve in the near future (near future is a subjective term, I make no predictions about "when")

[eugen.ratke]

Hi,

now it is one year later.

Do you have new stand?

[seth.madore]

Sadly, a lot has changed on our priority list in the last year...

[jason]

Come on - we have just started to transfer our lathe over from a 1993 version of super draft.  I'm dumfounded to see you cant put the basic tool shapes and holders into fusion turning.    Seriously didn't even think to check if this functionality existed.       EVEN the DOS version of super draft could this-   its such a basic and fundamental thing.

Ill put money on that when this is finally implemented, it will be a $ extra we will have the joy of paying even more for.

So frustrating- as its impossible to even get something close to a accurate tool in the current setup