Send your program to your CAM package

When you're happy with the program in the Program stage, send it to your CAM package to create the operations there.

Before you start

CAM Assist has finished running, without errors.
The part you ran CAM Assist on is still open in your CAM package.

Send the program

In the Program stage, check the operations.
Leave out any operation, section or setup you don't want to send. See Which operations get sent to my CAM package?
If Recalculate edited strategy appears at the top of the pane, click it and wait for the progress bar to finish.
Click Send to CAM package at the bottom of the pane.

The button shows a spinner while the program is sent. If you edited operations, CAM Assist first rebuilds the program with your edits, so this can take a little longer. Your CAM package then creates the operations.

Sending doesn't ask about tools: if you edited tools from your CAM package (session tools) in CAM Assist, the program is sent without a prompt to choose which tool changes to apply. To keep your edited tools in CAM Assist, save them as a library; see Save session tools as a tool library.

If you have strategy edits you haven't applied, Apply your strategy changes? asks first. Click Apply all or Discard all to continue, or Keep editing to go back. See Edit an operation.

The CAM Assist window closes. What you see next depends on your CAM package:

Mastercam: see The "CloudNC CAM Assist Completed" message in Mastercam.
Autodesk Fusion: see What does CAM Assist change in my Autodesk Fusion document?.
Siemens NX: see What does CAM Assist add to my Siemens NX part?.
GibbsCAM: if some operations fail, see "operation(s) failed to generate correctly" in GibbsCAM.
SolidCAM: SolidCAM shows "Operations are now being created by CAM Assist. This may take a few minutes. Please wait...." until it has finished. If some operations fail, see "Some operations could not be created by CAM Assist." in SolidCAM.

When every operation has been created, your CAM package shows a success message and the new toolpaths appear in it. SolidCAM shows no success message: the new operations appear in the CAM Manager.

Does the button say "Send 3 operations"?

With some CAM packages, CAM Assist sends operations in batches and the button counts them, for example Send 1 operation or Send 3 operations. It counts the included operations you haven't sent yet.

The footer shows progress, such as Generating toolpaths in CAM package…, and each operation row shows its status.
Click Cancel transfer to stop. Operations already created stay in your CAM package.
Click an operation to see its result in the panel. To send it again, click Resend, then send.

About Recalculate edited strategy

Edits to finishing operations can affect the roughing and deburring operations that depend on them. Recalculate edited strategy recalculates the program so they match. You can send without it, but CAM Assist recommends it: the send button shows a warning icon, and its tooltip reads Regeneration recommended prior to sending to CAM package. Recalculating can change any operation.

The warning icon also appears when you've changed inputs since the run. The tooltip then reads Send the existing program, generated with the inputs from the last run. To use your new inputs, regenerate the program first. See The Program stage.

Is Send to CAM package greyed out?

Tooltip	What to do
Finish editing operations before sending	Click Apply or Cancel in the strategy editor.
Wait for regeneration to complete before sending	Wait for the progress bar to finish.
No operations are ready to send. Resolve their cutting parameters or restore the original ones.	Give the operations marked No preset or Needs params cutting parameters. See Edit cutting parameters for an operation.
No tooltip	CAM Assist is still running, or the run failed. Wait, or see CAM Assist run failed.

What happens in your CAM package

If the send fails with "An error occurred", see "An error occurred" in CAM Assist.