I am new to Solidworks CAM, but I have a project at work where we are trying to implement the Solidworks CAM add-on for some tools we make. This is the tool that they want to test it on:
This is an assembly file to best represent a carbide tipped cutter. The gray part is the steel and the green part is the carbide. Right now I am just trying to CAM the steel:
I have set up the tool crib with a dovetail, keyseat and a few endmills the last attempt. The first time I just had a dovetail and keyseat cutter and it added an endmill. It always wants to use an endmill; never the dovetail or keyseat that it is supposed to use. I have always used Extract Machinable Features since that is what I have seen in all the videos I have watched.
I've attached the .prt file. Any help on how to CAM it would be much appreciated.
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By "It always wants to use an endmill", do you mean in the visual representation on the simulation? When you set up your dovetail and keyseat, do you mean you just selected them from the default Tech DB, or did you actually create them from scratch? If you created them from scratch or copied and existing tool and modified it, you will need to create or modify the linked file that the Tech DB uses to create/show the simulation as well.