New tool plungerate error

Hello, I can’t get Carbide Create to accept new tool parameters without giving me an entirely unhelpful error message. I’m not sure what to do.

Trying to input an Amana surfacing bit, so I copied over the McFly and edited the data and when I click “ok” it changes the tool diamater and plungerate and won’t let me continue. It doesn’t really matter what I put into the plungerate it still gives me the error:

‘Plungerate’ must be between 0.500 and 10000.000

This error also occurred when I just created the tool from scratch vs copying. Apologies I tried the search function but didn’t find anything with this error message.

Is there an additional library of more common tools I can download vs inputting each?


Please try specifying units for each value which you are entering.

Not sure why it’s doing this, edit - It’s late and re-read your post. I wonder if its the tool number itself conflicting in CC?

That’s kind of interesting. It seems like every time you change the plunge rate the tool diameter changes by its self.

Including units didn’t seem to help. Each time I click “ok” after the error the diameter keeps shrinking. I’m not even editing the tool name this time, just trying to change the plungerate on the McFly setting.


There is a known bug where if the units of your project and the units of the tool do not match, then the data for the tool gets corrupted on entry by erroneous metric / imperial conversions.

If you are creating an ‘Inch’ tool, first make sure the units in your project is ‘Inches’, and likewise for metric.

If that isn’t the issue, then I got nuthin’.

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yeah seems to be the same issue. Is there a way to input tools in metric? Even when I try mm it gives me the error.

You can create new tools in either metric or imperial. With this bug, I wouldn’t try mixing units in any one tool.

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