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Convert a Vectric tool database (.vtdb) to Fusion 360 (Beta)

Open a VCarve or Aspire .vtdb and get a Fusion 360 tool library with geometry, tool numbers and 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).

    Your files are deleted after processing.

    Moving from VCarve or Aspire to Fusion 360, or using a vendor who only ships a Vectric database? Fusion can't open a .vtdb. This page reads the Vectric tool database and writes a Fusion 360 tool library with the geometry, tool numbers and cutting data of every bit.

    How to convert a .vtdb to Fusion 360

    1. Upload the .vtdb. Databases from Vectric version 10 onwards are read, including the newer database layouts that older Vectric releases refuse to open.
    2. Keep Fusion 360 tool library (.tools), or pick the .json variant under Convert to if you prefer a plain-text file. Both hold the same library.
    3. Look through the preview table and the conversion notes.
    4. In Fusion, open the Manufacture workspace, then Manage → Tool Library. Right-click Local in the library tree, choose Import libraries and select the downloaded file.

    How the cutting data arrives

    Vectric keeps feeds and speeds per material. Each material a tool has in the database becomes a Fusion preset named after that material, holding spindle speed, feed, plunge rate, stepdown and stepover. Vectric has no ramp feed, so Fusion's ramp feed is set to the plunge rate. Values are copied as they are; confirm them for your machine before cutting.

    Geometry Fusion needs but Vectric doesn't store

    A Vectric database has no shank diameter or overall length, and Fusion won't accept a tool without consistent lengths. So the shank is set to the cutting diameter (at least 3 mm or 1/8"), and a plausible overall length is filled in; the notes list the tools that got a default length. Correct shank and stick-out in Fusion before relying on its collision checks.

    What doesn't come across

    • Form tools arrive with their name and diameter only; the drawn profile is lost.
    • Laser and drag-knife entries are left out of the Fusion file, and the notes name them.
    • Vectric's folder tree is not reproduced: the tools land in one library.
    • Drill banks aren't converted.

    V-bit and tapered-mill angles are converted from Vectric's included angle to Fusion's angle per side automatically, and inch and metric tools keep their own units unless you choose one system under Units of the output.

    To look at a database without converting it for a CAM program, see opening a .vtdb file. The reverse direction is covered by Fusion 360 to VCarve.

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