Tool Reference

Anonymous — Wed, 29 May 2019 15:54:40 GMT

Is there a way to find out what toolpaths a tool is used in? ( Other than attempting to delete the tool )

The project needs to be moved to a smaller tool capacity machine than it was programmed for, so I need to break the tools up into logical groups. There are nearly 400 toolpaths in this project and will take a lot of time to go through individually.

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Jonathan_Artiss19 — Wed, 29 May 2019 16:11:04 GMT

@Anonymous

You can open the tool settings and go to the holder profile tab. This will display all the toolpaths this tool has been assigned too.

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Anonymous — Wed, 29 May 2019 16:23:19 GMT

That's exactly what I was after, thanks Jonathan.

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Oscar_cadcampilot — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 23:12:06 GMT

Another good way to get tool data, or other toolpath data quickly, is to view the toolpaths in the NC Program dialog.

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5axes — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:14:45 GMT

I'm late but for this type of job I was using a macro : (note Tool Can be assigned to toolpaths but also to boundaries)

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Permet d'afficher tous les éléments (parcours et frontière) utilisant l'outil sélectionné //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Macro à lancer depuis un menu utilisateur tool. // Exemple fichier tool.xml à mettre dans le répertoire macro // Rappel pas d'accent sur les commandes du XML //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //<?xml version="1.0" ?> //<menupage> // <button command='MACRO "Affiche_elements_avec_outil" "%s"' label="Affiche elements avec cet outil" /> //</menupage> //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Variable $Selected_Tool //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FUNCTION Main(STRING $Selected_Tool) { /// commence par ne plus afficher aucun parcours outil UNDRAW toolpath ALL // Construire la fonction STRING $expr = "tool.name=='" + $entity('tool',$Selected_Tool).name + "'" INT Nb_Elem=0 // pour chaque parcours regarde si le parcours FOREACH $tp IN extract(filter(folder('toolpath'), $expr), 'name') { DRAW TOOLPATH ${entity('toolpath', $tp).name} $Nb_Elem=$Nb_Elem+1 } /// commence par ne plus afficher aucune frontière UNDRAW BOUNDARY ALL BOOL $Err = 0 // pour chaque frontière regarde si il y a un outil et si oui si c'est le même nom FOREACH $Elem IN folder('boundary') { $Err = ERROR $entity('Tool',$Elem.Tool.Name) IF NOT $Err { IF $Elem.Tool.Name == $Selected_Tool { DRAW BOUNDARY $Elem.Name $Nb_Elem=$Nb_Elem+1 } } } IF $Nb_Elem !=0 { MESSAGE INFO "Elements trouvé(s) $Nb_Elem" } ELSE { MESSAGE WARN "Aucun elements trouvé" } }

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