I am a long time user of SolidCAM and until recently I only ever cut Aluminium 7075 or 2616 (except for rare occaisions when we had to machine MMC, about which the less said the better) and as such I only had one tool library with the the cutting data for Ally as the default.
Times change, and now I find myself programming to cut Steel, Stainless, Titanium and even some Cast Iron in the offing, so I need to run some tools with different data depending on the material (mainly drills). The simple way around this would be to create different tool libraries for each material and this I have started to do.
But in SolidCAM 2011 there is this option under the Tool Libraries menu called "Cutting Conditions" which, if I understand the help screens right, could be the answer. I would like to talk to someone about getting the best out of this facility but my SolidCAM guy doesn't know of anyone here in the UK using it. SolidCAM Professor has not got around to doing a tutorial on Cutting Conditions yet (in the "What's New for 2011" presentation the link to SolidCAM Professor for Cutting Conditions just says "Coming Soon!"). So, does anyone on this forum have any experience, good or bad, with using "Cutting Conditions" in SolidCAM 2011 that they would like to share?
Keep the swarf flying!