Tool Management Feeds and Speeds

[ecnels]

Hi Folks:

I’ve been trying (for 6 years) multiple CAD>CAM approaches and believe you guys really are onto something effective and efficient for me the User.  THANK YOU.

As an Autodesk 360 User,  in the CAM Section,  Tool Management.  The way you’ve laid out the Tool Database makes a lot of sense;  however, there is one important Database Leveling Item that’s causing much unnecessary work and is destined to create management issues here. 

THE ISSUE:  A single tool can be used for multiple materials; howbeit,  generally feeds and speeds have to change, but Tool Database Management only permits a tool to have one Feed & Speed setting.  This is not real-world.

See the Screen Capture and Notes in the enclosed file.

This issue is that non-leveled database data with respect to Feeds & Speeds requires a huge amount of identical tool information to be repeated in multiple places in the Tool Database (behind the scenes).  It’s not hard to imagine having to replicate most of the tool data 25-30 times (once for every desired material’s Feeds & Speeds for each tool).  This is destined to create maintenance havoc and machining mistakes; for example,  what happens if we can no longer obtain Tool #9 from any source, so we choose the next closest tool, which has slightly different sizing,  along with different  Feeds  and Speeds.  We’d have to change the database, so it "says the same thing" in at least 20-30 places!  Properly associating one tool with many possible materials (thus many Feeds & Speeds) is the proper way to handle this.  The way it is, gets out of hand very quickly.

Thanks again for the great work you’re doing.  Autodesk360 is so promising!; as one simple, but profound example,  having JavaScript Post processing that’s user-editable.  We get a little giddy about 360 once in a while!

Best Regards,

Ev

Everett Nelson

A1B1 LC

540-999-5051

Northern Virginia

ecnels@yahoo.com

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

This is in the pipeline.

Expect it to be released 1-2 years from now.

[ecnels]

Great! Thanks for the Heads-Up!

[colin.smith]

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