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In this exercise, you'll practice how to Create a digital tool holder and tool assembly.
Exercise
Transcript
00:01
this is a practice exercise video solution
00:06
for this practice will be creating a tool library and a tool holder Infusion 3 60.
00:12
We want to get started by navigating to our manufacturer workspace
00:15
and over in the managed section, select tool library.
00:19
Having a tool library with a digital equivalent of a real tool and
00:23
holder is an extremely important step in the process of programming parts.
00:28
These are going to be used to ensure that we don't
00:30
have any collisions or clearance issues when we're machining our parts.
00:34
So there are two different places in which we can
00:36
create tool libraries in the cloud as well as locally.
00:40
What I'm going to be doing is selecting local.
00:42
I'm going to right click and create a new library.
00:45
I'm going to call this intro practice
00:49
and now I have an empty tool library
00:51
In order to create a holder.
00:53
This can be done from scratch or we can
00:56
find a holder that's close in the samples library.
00:58
It's a good idea to navigate to the fusion 360 samples and
01:03
in this case I'm going to go to samples holders inch.
01:06
Now it's strongly suggested that you do an online search and
01:10
find a holder that you use commonly in your machine shop
01:13
for me I'm going to select a CT 40 or cat 40 and take a look at blank one and blanked too.
01:20
We can see here that blank one and blank to give the main portion
01:25
of the cat 40 holder with the exception of the taper at the top.
01:29
The taper at the top is not going to cause any
01:31
collision issues for us because it's inside of the spindle.
01:34
However, the rest of the geometry is very critical.
01:38
The cT 40 blank two is going to be the closest equivalent to what I need to create.
01:42
So I'm going to right click and select copy tool.
01:45
Then in my local intro to practice library, I'll right click and paste the tool
01:51
from here. I can select it
01:52
right click and edit.
01:54
The first thing that I'm going to do is change the
01:56
description from CT 40 blank to to CT 40 E R 32
02:02
short using an E R 32 short collet holder is going to
02:06
be a common holder that you'll see in a machine shop.
02:09
Once we get to the holder geometry note that each of these
02:12
index lines will show a different section of the tool holder.
02:16
You define this by giving the height at the top and the bottom
02:21
For me, section nine and section 10 are where we're going to focus our attention.
02:25
An er 32 short is going to have one inch distance from this upper
02:30
face all the way down to the very bottom of the collet nut.
02:34
So I'm going to increase this 10.595 to 1.0.
02:39
This is going to automatically give me a representation of the
02:42
er 32 short collet holder and the cat 40 holder itself,
02:48
we could use more detailed values. Having it taper in slightly where the nut is
02:53
but having a slightly larger representation is going to be better for
02:56
us to absolutely ensure that we don't have any holder collisions.
02:60
So from here I'm going to select accept and now I have a ct 40
03:07
The next thing I want to do is go to my fusion
03:13
I'm going to select a flat end mill and in this
03:15
case I'm going to look for a 3/8 flat end mill,
03:18
going to right click on this, copy the tool and paste it in my intro to practice.
03:24
Once I clear off all of my filters you can see now I've got my tool
03:28
notice that this already has a holder associated with it.
03:32
However, if we want to use our er 32 short we can select our holder
03:37
right click and copy the tool.
03:39
Then when we select our tool we have an option to apply our holder.
03:43
When we select apply because there is already a holder on this tool,
03:47
it's going to ask us if we want to override it.
03:49
If we select apply, notice that it's going to change out the holder for this tool.
03:54
Now,
03:54
all the information about how far the tool sticks out from
03:57
the holder can be modified inside of the tool itself,
04:02
you can find this under the cutter section and the length below holder.
04:05
In this case I'm going to increase it to one inch and accept the changes
04:11
because our libraries are saved either locally or on the cloud.
04:14
No changes need to be saved because
04:16
it automatically updates anytime we make adjustments.
04:19
So from here, we can simply close out our tool library.
Video transcript
00:01
this is a practice exercise video solution
00:06
for this practice will be creating a tool library and a tool holder Infusion 3 60.
00:12
We want to get started by navigating to our manufacturer workspace
00:15
and over in the managed section, select tool library.
00:19
Having a tool library with a digital equivalent of a real tool and
00:23
holder is an extremely important step in the process of programming parts.
00:28
These are going to be used to ensure that we don't
00:30
have any collisions or clearance issues when we're machining our parts.
00:34
So there are two different places in which we can
00:36
create tool libraries in the cloud as well as locally.
00:40
What I'm going to be doing is selecting local.
00:42
I'm going to right click and create a new library.
00:45
I'm going to call this intro practice
00:49
and now I have an empty tool library
00:51
In order to create a holder.
00:53
This can be done from scratch or we can
00:56
find a holder that's close in the samples library.
00:58
It's a good idea to navigate to the fusion 360 samples and
01:03
in this case I'm going to go to samples holders inch.
01:06
Now it's strongly suggested that you do an online search and
01:10
find a holder that you use commonly in your machine shop
01:13
for me I'm going to select a CT 40 or cat 40 and take a look at blank one and blanked too.
01:20
We can see here that blank one and blank to give the main portion
01:25
of the cat 40 holder with the exception of the taper at the top.
01:29
The taper at the top is not going to cause any
01:31
collision issues for us because it's inside of the spindle.
01:34
However, the rest of the geometry is very critical.
01:38
The cT 40 blank two is going to be the closest equivalent to what I need to create.
01:42
So I'm going to right click and select copy tool.
01:45
Then in my local intro to practice library, I'll right click and paste the tool
01:51
from here. I can select it
01:52
right click and edit.
01:54
The first thing that I'm going to do is change the
01:56
description from CT 40 blank to to CT 40 E R 32
02:02
short using an E R 32 short collet holder is going to
02:06
be a common holder that you'll see in a machine shop.
02:09
Once we get to the holder geometry note that each of these
02:12
index lines will show a different section of the tool holder.
02:16
You define this by giving the height at the top and the bottom
02:21
For me, section nine and section 10 are where we're going to focus our attention.
02:25
An er 32 short is going to have one inch distance from this upper
02:30
face all the way down to the very bottom of the collet nut.
02:34
So I'm going to increase this 10.595 to 1.0.
02:39
This is going to automatically give me a representation of the
02:42
er 32 short collet holder and the cat 40 holder itself,
02:48
we could use more detailed values. Having it taper in slightly where the nut is
02:53
but having a slightly larger representation is going to be better for
02:56
us to absolutely ensure that we don't have any holder collisions.
02:60
So from here I'm going to select accept and now I have a ct 40
03:07
The next thing I want to do is go to my fusion
03:13
I'm going to select a flat end mill and in this
03:15
case I'm going to look for a 3/8 flat end mill,
03:18
going to right click on this, copy the tool and paste it in my intro to practice.
03:24
Once I clear off all of my filters you can see now I've got my tool
03:28
notice that this already has a holder associated with it.
03:32
However, if we want to use our er 32 short we can select our holder
03:37
right click and copy the tool.
03:39
Then when we select our tool we have an option to apply our holder.
03:43
When we select apply because there is already a holder on this tool,
03:47
it's going to ask us if we want to override it.
03:49
If we select apply, notice that it's going to change out the holder for this tool.
03:54
Now,
03:54
all the information about how far the tool sticks out from
03:57
the holder can be modified inside of the tool itself,
04:02
you can find this under the cutter section and the length below holder.
04:05
In this case I'm going to increase it to one inch and accept the changes
04:11
because our libraries are saved either locally or on the cloud.
04:14
No changes need to be saved because
04:16
it automatically updates anytime we make adjustments.
04:19
So from here, we can simply close out our tool library.
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