In the middle of transitioning to F360 and I thought it would be useful to move (some) of the default feeds and speeds for the mills calculated in CC for various materials into a F360 tool library and hopefully share the library file to the Nomad forum to help others making the jump. No easy way to do this - as far as I can tell - so going one by one. In process and I have noted a discrepancy between the CC library with the actual tools which affects the calculated feeds/speeds in CC. Needless to say this might affect users of CC, not just people transitoning.
Eg:
#201 0.250 flat end mill CC lists as 2 flute with 0.375 flute length. But the #201 I have here is a 3 Flute model with 1.000 flutes. Ditto #202 ball mill. Not sure if the tool shipped changed over time but updated my CC library appropriately.
Will attempt to list other discrepancies as they are encountered.
I really wish that we could have some sort of defined plain text / XML file which would define tooling (and which could optionally define feeds and speeds as well) and which could be loaded and collected and shared.
Thanks for that - the TPS files are interesting and more accessible than the (what I think) registry based system of CC. Both systems have their advantages and weaknesses. Perhaps when I get through with Fusion I’ll take a look at doing a set of TPS for MeshCAM. I did take a peek at the Carbide auto tool path in MeshCAM tonight and interestingly for the Nomad the RPM is held at 10,000RPM regardless of material or mill used - so definitely the way things are calculated between CC and MeshCAM are completely different. Not sure what is ‘better’ but suspect the auto feeds/speeds under CC get more use than auto feeds/speeds in MeshCAM.