A system for aiding a user in at least one of welding, cutting, joining, and cladding operations is provided. The system includes a welding tool (16) and a welding helmet (12) with a face-mounted display. The system also includes a spatial tracker (420) configured to track the welding helmet and the welding tool in 3-D space relative to an object to be worked on. A processor based subsystem (410) is configured to generate visual cues based on information from the spatial tracker and transmit the visual cues to a predetermined location on the face-mounted display.
