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What Tooling Metrics connects to

The CAM software, your own software, the shopfloor computers, and the files Tooling Metrics works with today, and what it doesn't connect to yet.

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Tooling Metrics connects to CAM software through ToolingMetrics CAM Connect, to your own software through its REST API, and to the shopfloor through the ToolingMetrics WAP desktop app. For the rest, it reads and writes files: GTC packages, CSV spreadsheets, and CAM tool libraries.

CAM software

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ToolingMetrics CAM Connect for Autodesk Fusion is an add-in for Autodesk Fusion, the one CAM software it supports today. It signs in with your personal API token.

  • Into Fusion: the add-in loads your tool assemblies into Fusion’s tool library: those whose status your organization includes in its Central Tool Assemblies Library setting. While the add-in is running, Send to Autodesk Fusion on a tool assembly sends that one assembly straight to it.
  • Back from Fusion: the add-in exports your programmed setups as a project, with one job per setup and one operation per toolpath, and finds or creates the part and the machine.

Start with How CAM Connect works.

Your own software: the REST API

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The API at https://api.toolingmetrics.com/v1 signs in with a personal API token and acts with your own permissions, up to 60 requests a minute.

  • Read: your organizations, tool assemblies, the Autodesk Fusion tool library, materials, and the tools stored at a machine.
  • Read and write: projects with their jobs and operations, parts, and machines.

It has no endpoints yet for items, stock, vendors, or purchasing. Start with Getting started.

The shopfloor: ToolingMetrics WAP

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ToolingMetrics WAP runs on the computer at each warehouse access point, which it is tied to by the computer’s MAC address. Operators pick, return, restock, count, and scrap stock there, receive purchases, and scan a tool’s ID or an item’s barcode to find it. See ToolingMetrics WAP.

ERP

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Tooling Metrics has no connector for an ERP system. To share data with one today, use the REST API for projects, parts, and machines, and CSV files for the rest: vendors, items, stock rules, machines, parts, and materials export to CSV and import from CSV or Excel, as Import records from a spreadsheet shows.

Files

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  • GTC packages in: product data from cutting tool manufacturers, as Find a manufacturer’s GTC package shows.
  • Tool libraries out: tool assemblies as GTC or Autodesk Fusion packages, as Export the tool library to CAM shows.
  • Purchase orders out: sent to the vendor by email, with the order as a PDF.
  • Tables out: a dashboard widget’s table as a CSV file.

Tooling Metrics doesn’t connect to machine controls, tool presetters, or an MES.

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