Have any of you spent enough time modifying the tool library to come up with some siggestions on what might be considered best practices (naming conventions, data acquisition sources, etc)
The main thing is all tools have to have unique numbers. So do not duplicate tool numbers or CC gets confused.
For me I start at 600 for flat end mills, 700 for fly cutters and 800 for vee bits and 900 for odd balls that dont fit into the preceding categories. Since CC does not display what the tool is I have a list of my custom tools on a sticker on my Shapeoko.
For some of my Whiteside bits that are 1/4" two flute down/up I simply use the built in tools of 205 and 251 instead of making a custom tool.
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I’m going to borrow this idea! I struggled trying to organize since the software won’t tell me what bit I’m changing to. I hope that’s something that changes in the future so we have tool number and the tool name on the tool change prompt. Cheers