Tool length settings are not visible in the Tool editing window.
So, Where does on input that geometry?
IF you are creating your own tool library, it is stored in C:\Users<user>\AppData\Local\Carbide 3D\Carbide Create\tools|<my_library>.csv (Access using Help → About → Open Data directory)
There is no overall length parameter, only a flute length & stickout.
And the CC software only uses the diameter, depth, and angle for Vee tools to calculate tool position in toolpaths. If you try to cut 5" deep with a 1" length tool, it will do it.
Any other parameters are defaults for your convenience, and strictly for your organization.
Thanks for the reply.
I set the tool up in my library and it defaulted to .5 for length.
I was asking because I ran it this AM and it only cut .25 of a .4 requested depth of cut.
I’m stumped.
Is there a “Z-0.4” in the G-code?
Other possibilities: Your Z Zero is not where it should be. You’ve hit the lower limit of your Z axis.
Something is impeding the Z travel, and the machine is losing steps.
Static discharge will also cause the machine to lose steps, and sometimes behave very strange.
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Yes there is a Z-.3902 at the second line from the bottom of all that G Code.
The Zero was set with the Bit Setter.
Lower limit not reached.
Nothing impeding travel.
Static discharge , Ya mean gremlins? Gotta come up with some mystical hiccup right?
I’m setting up for another practice piece.
Tool length doesn’t change anything about how a tool will cut in Carbide Create in current versions.
Some of the parameters that @Tod1d refereed to are not in use at this time. I think they were trying to future proof the parameters in the tools files.
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