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6/23/00

How to tell Featurecam you are keeping a specific tool in a given tool slot in the machine tool.

Here's the situation:

You always keep a specific tool in a specific tool slot in the machine tool you use.

Featurecam can be taught to remember that this tool is always in that slot.  The convenience of this is that whenever Featurecam selects the tool it automatically assigns it to the correct slot.

  1. Generate toolpaths in Featurecam.

  2. Go to Manufacturing, Tool Mapping

  3. Select the tool you in question and assign it to a slot.

  4. For example, if you always keep an 80mm facing mill (M08000) in tool slot 31 - visit tool mapping and change the tool no. to 31 and click "save in crib".

  5. This will save this tool to the current tool crib.  In the future this tool will always be assigned to slot 31 if it is used from this toolcrib.

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