WillAdams
August 1, 2025, 5:51pm
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It is an unsupported option to manually edit the underlying .csv file. Go to Help | About | Open Data Directory, then open the Carbide Create directory and find a Carbide Create\tools directory — custom tools are stored in that in .csv files and may be backed up or saved or transferred to another computer, or edited using a text editor or spreadsheet (if one saves as CSV format). See
Here is a .csv for the Amana tools which Carbide 3D has begun selling.
Feeds and speeds are copied from similar Carbide 3D tooling for MDF and are untested:
User-Amana.zip (792 Bytes)
Here is a version which has the Amana feeds and speeds copied into it — breaking this up and naming it appropriately by appropriate materials and updating the feeds and speeds to match what the machine can actually cut at is left as an exercise for the reader:
User_Amana_tools_Shapeoko_Various.zip (834 Bytes)
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Ok, thanks to @WillAdams I edited the CSV for the mills I added. Most of the columns made sense, some I guessed at. I believe things are good enough to not be afraid to try them out.
If anyone is looking for something to do, I am including my mills’ specs and my CSV if you would like to opine on my interpretation…
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Amana Mills to CCPro.zip (1.0 MB)
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So, I have a dedicated laptop out in the shop to run my Shapeoko, buy my main production machine is a desktop here in my office. Since I’m trying to setup good consistent tooling information, I was frustrated that the hard work I put into setting up correct/comprehensive tool libraries on the laptop wouldn’t allow me to do all of my toolpath designing here on the desktop.
If you haven’t discovered it yet, you can edit the CSV files (just plain “comma-separated values”) in Excel to take better c…