I just recently updated Carbide Motion to the latest version, and now it not only gives me the tool number that I’ve set in VCarve, but it also gives me the name for that tool. Unfortunately I can’t seem to be able to figure out where it gets that information, as it is clearly not from VCarve 
I can see the M6 T101 (as an example) in the GCode file, so there seem to be no reference to a tool name in the GCode. Halp…?
If you use a tool number from the CC/CM library, CM knows the name. The default library from CC is loaded (hard-coded) into CM so it can ask you for the name.
CC V8 implemented tool names. I’m not using CM so can’t verify, but the new comments in the Gcode look like…
(TOOL 10: 1.2. EM)
(TOOL 102: .102 1.8. DEFAULT)
(TOOL 302: .302 Vee .60.0 degrees.)
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Hm… I’m not using CC (and I don’t even have it installed) - is there a file somewhere in the CM install that contains the tool library?
I haven’t found one. Pretty sure it’s hardcoded.
That’s… unfortunate. At least make it selectable to use the Carbide Create tool numbers or not - I’m sure I can’t be the only one with clashing tool numbers.
Even if we could copy our custom tool files from CC to a data folder in CM…
Then it could prompt with the tool name.
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