Carbide Create Tools Library

[CNCNewbie (Haw-minn Lu)]

I was going to post this as a question, but I discovered the answer.

The problem:

I do my CAD on my main workstation step, with mouse/keyboard/multiple monitors. I do my CAM on old laptop of my Dad gave me which I refurbished. I like to generate the gcode on the CAM machine since I might have some last minute tweaks or need to make a correction after I start cutting. The problem is how do I make sure my user defined tool definitions are synced.

The solution

This was mostly answered by @Tod1d and I would have just added this to this topic.

How do I import my fusion 360 tools library into CC?

It looks like F360 can export tool library as a .tsv file, which could be opened in Excel What other formats will it export tool libraries? CC customer tool libraries are just .csv files, which can be saved from Excel Now you just have to match the format. Rename the header fields, delete unneeded columns, add necessary columns, then put it in the CC data folder. I imagine someone good with Office/Excel scripting could whip up something to do the conversion.

but it is closed.

To complete the answer, the export file is located in at \User\<username>\AppData\Local\Carbide 3D\Carbide Create\tools. All user defined tool libraries are found there. The file name gets translated to the library name with the exception that + gets changed to -. Of course, this is my observation on a windows system. Be good if a Mac user could figure out the corresponding information.

With this information, it should be enough to also allow you to import fusion tools libraries into CC.

If anyone is interested, I would be happy write a translator tool in python and post it here. Just PM me, I’ve only started dabbling with Fusion, so I don’t know that side of things very well.