When you click Send to CAM package, CAM Assist adds operations to your Autodesk Fusion setups, plus the sketches, patches and tools they need. It also updates your setups' Model and Fixture selections to match CAM Assist. It doesn't change your existing bodies.
What gets added or changed
| Where | What CAM Assist does |
|---|---|
| Setups | Adds operations to each setup the program was made for, grouped in folders such as Facing, Roughing, Holemaking and Chamfering, and starts generating their toolpaths. |
| Operation notes | If it couldn't set part of an operation, it says so in the operation's Notes, for example Failed to set cutting parameters. |
| Design | Adds sketches that hold machining boundaries, named <setup name> - <tool number>. With design history on, their planes sit in a CAM Assist: Sketch Plane feature and each setup's sketches are grouped in the timeline under the setup's name. |
| Design | May add a component named CAM Assist with patch surfaces that fill holes, so roughing operations don't cut into them. |
| Document tool library | Writes tools you added, edited or removed in CAM Assist. |
| Setup Model and Fixture | Sets them to the part and workholding bodies used in CAM Assist. If a setup had no workholding in CAM Assist, its fixture is turned off. |
| Document data | Saves your CAM Assist settings for the part, so they're there next time you open CAM Assist on this document. Also saves the material, machine and workholding used, for the Cutting Parameters Explorer. |
Folder and operation names use Autodesk Fusion's language, not the CAM Assist language.
The "CAM Assist session tools" message
After sending, Fusion lists the tool changes it made to the document's tool library. CAM Assist doesn't edit or remove a tool that existing operations in the document already use:
- Following tools were not edited as they are used in existing operations in your document: CAM Assist added an edited copy instead, listed after instead following new tools were created:.
- The following tools were not removed as they are used in existing operations in your document: the tool stays in the library.
Any tool listed under failed to be created, deleted or edited wasn't changed. Check the operations that use it.
The "Body Redefinitions" message
When exporting from CAM Assist, the following body definitions were updated in the document:
Each line says <body> was redefined as Part, Workholding or Avoidance. Part and Workholding changes are written to the setup's Model and Fixture selections.
A body redefined as Avoidance is listed but not written to the Fusion setup: Fusion has no setting CAM Assist can write it to. Check the setup's Model and Fixture selections still match what you expect before you post.
What this means for you
- Save the document after sending to keep the operations and your CAM Assist settings.
- Tools used by earlier operations are never changed, so earlier programs keep their tools.
- Review operations that have Notes before you post.
Videos
These CloudNC Academy videos were recorded with an earlier version of CAM Assist, so some screens may look different.