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Import a Fusion 360 tool library into VCarve or Aspire (Beta)

Turn a Fusion 360 .tools or .json library, your own or a vendor download, into a Vectric .vtdb tool database with its feeds and speeds.

Opens: Fusion .tools/.json/.csv, Vectric .vtdb, Carbide Create .csv, FreeCAD .fctl/.fctb, LinuxCNC/PathPilot tool.tbl, CSV, Excel
Saves: Fusion .tools/.json, Vectric .vtdb, Carbide Create .csv, FreeCAD 1.1 / 0.19–1.0, LinuxCNC tool.tbl, CSV, Excel

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    A Fusion .tools/.json/.csv library, a Vectric .vtdb database, a Carbide Create tool .csv, FreeCAD .fctl plus its .fctb bits (or a .zip of the Tools folder), a LinuxCNC/PathPilot tool.tbl, or a CSV/Excel tool list. If you add several files, their tools are merged into one library.

    Options

    Keep each tool's own units where the target allows it, or convert everything. Tool tables always use one unit system: match your machine.

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    Only used for files that do not record their units (LinuxCNC tool tables, bare spreadsheets).

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    Many cutter makers publish their libraries for Fusion 360 only, and VCarve, Aspire and Cut2D can't import a Fusion file. This page converts a Fusion 360 tool library into a Vectric tool database (.vtdb), so you don't have to enter each bit by hand.

    How to import a Fusion 360 library into VCarve

    1. Get the Fusion library as a file: a vendor's .tools or .json download, or your own library exported from Fusion's Tool Library. A CSV exported from Fusion works too.
    2. Upload it. Convert to is already set to the Vectric tool database.
    3. Read the conversion notes: they list what Vectric can't hold and any cutter written as a different type.
    4. Download the .vtdb. In VCarve or Aspire, open the Tool Database, choose Import, select the file and tick the tools or folders you want.

    When a library has more than 10 tools, the result also offers a file with only the first 10: handy for a test import.

    Feeds, speeds and materials

    Fusion stores cutting data as presets on each tool; Vectric stores it per material. Every preset material becomes a material in the new database, and presets without one go into a material called Default. Select that material in the Tool Database to see the values. Spindle speed, feed, plunge rate, stepdown and stepover carry over; Vectric has no field for ramp feed or chip load. The values are copied unchanged, so check them against your machine and material before the first cut.

    Geometry and tool types

    • Diameters, flute length, flute count, corner radius and tool numbers are kept, and each tool keeps its own inch or metric units.
    • Fusion gives taper angles per side, Vectric uses the included angle; the converter doubles the value, so a 10° per-side taper becomes a 20° included angle.
    • Shank diameter and overall length have no place in a Vectric database.
    • Types Vectric doesn't know, such as form tools and slot cutters, are written as end mills with the same diameter and listed in the notes.

    Which Vectric versions

    The .vtdb tool database is used by Vectric software from version 10 on. The file is written in the version-10 database layout that most vendor databases also use, not in the newest layout; newer releases upgrade it when they import it.

    Going the other way? See Vectric to Fusion 360.

    More about what this tool reads and writes: CNC Tool Library Converter.

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