Adding to tool library

[RetiredLeo (Frank Byrnes)]

I added some new end mills and am trying to figure out why it comes up Tool 1 in Carbide Motion. When I added the end mills in CCV7, I named one of them ( Jenny 1/8) . Any help would be appreciated.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Could you please show us what is showing in the Tool Edit pane?

[gdon_2003 (Guy Donham)]

I posted this a few minutes ago on another thread.

Tool numbers must be unique in CC. The tag for the name is not used by CC only the number. So I started with 600 and went up because so far C3D has not used those numbers as of yet.

Here is the post on editing your custom tool database. Some of this is about using a fly bit to flatten a spoilboard. You can ignore that part but the procedure to edit a custom tool is the important part. I was too lazy to edit and just copy and pasted.

I use a Whiteside 6210 1" carbide fly bit to surface. My DOC is 0.01". I make a single pass with pencil marks all over my spoilboard. If there are any pencil marks left I rezero in that spot and run the job again. I want to take off as little of my spoilboard as possible but still get it flat. If you have cut very deeply into your spoilboard you may just have to live with it and not flatten all the way to make all marks disappear.

Here is my custom tool database for the Whiteside 6210 bit and a clone that is identical.

number	vendor	model	URL	name	type	diameter	cornerradius	flutelength	shaftdiameter	angle	numflutes	stickout	coating	metric	notes	machine	material	plungerate	feedrate	rpm	depth	cutpower	finishallowance	3dstepover	3dfeedrate	3drpm
601	whiteside	6210		601 Fly Cutter 6201	end	1	0	0.25	0	2	3	0.25		0				10	80	16000	0.01		1	35	80	16000
602	Sugelary	X002JUT7TF		602 Fly Cutter	end	1	0	0.25	0	2	3	0.25		0				10	100	16000	0.01		1	35	100	16000

If you are using the McFly that is likely already programmed in the factory tool database.

To modify a custom tool already created:

1. Open CC
2. Go to About Menu
3. Click on the Open Data Directory
4. Navigate to the Carbide Create Directory
5. Navigate to the Tools Directory
6. If you have already created a custom tool you can click on that custom database and it should open in a spreadsheet. You can edit and then save as a .csv file. Do not let the spreadsheet save in its native format because CC cannot read that only a .csv file.

You can create a custom tool but there is much more you can add by using the above procedure.

[RetiredLeo (Frank Byrnes)]