Creation of Toolholders

We can consider 2 ways to create toolholders in GO2cam:

• by drawing toolholders in ‘Forming Tools/Tools Libraries’

• by importing holders from CAD in ‘Clamping / Toolholders’

Drawing Toolholders

This method is available in the environment ‘Forming Tools/Tools Libraries’. It is more and more rare, due to the better quality of CAD exchange those last years.

But you can still draw and create 3 types of toolholders:

• create milling toolholders by revolution of a 2D profile,

• create turning toolholders by revolution of a 2D profile,

• create turning toolholders by extrusion of a 2D profile.

For each of them, you need to draw first the 2D geometry, then define it as a profile. Once the profile selected, the toolholder is created and saved as a *.SYM file.

Rules of creation: the origin of the workplane is the piloted point of the created element, for the revolution shapes, it is obligatory to draw only on the X+ side and not to close the geometry on the rotary axis, for the shapes created by extrusion, the shape must be absolutely closed.

Toolholder by Revolution

Importing Toolholders

This method of importing toolholders from CAD softwares is much more frequent.

The creation process for tools, symbols, machine, etc. has become more fluid with the interactive system of axes. The arrow - inverts the selected axis orientation The letter - allows the repositioning of the selected axis to a different direction The origin - allows to relocate the system of axes to another origin.

▶️ Watch a video on the creation process.

Here are several standard examples of toolholders imported from CAD; we describe the process in details in the following pages:

Single Tool Holder for Milling
Turning: Insert Holder
Turning: Insert Holder for Threading Tool
Turning: Single Tool Holder
Multiple Tool Holder for Lathe