GibbsCAM & Coffee: Intermediate Tooling 5/11/22

[@cristinelpricop]

this is gold😁

[@CraigHuey47]

Creating a milling tool holder this way would mean that it's an "intermediate tool block" . Can toolpaths still use it for holder avoidance etc? I have a very large library to create, and I'm wondering what is the best strategy.

[@virtual-mfg]

Yes, absolutely they can be used for avoidance!

[@lolas32d]

I have a question how to add a comment in a .nc file. I want the name of the tool holder in the comment before the process in the NC program

[@virtual-mfg]

Patryk, there are a number of options for adding comments to your NC file within GIbbsCAM. Within an open session of Gibbs, go File > Preferences > Post Processor Comments. Here you will find a number of checkable options for commenting within your posted code. Depending on how your tools & tool holders are named & saved, you are likely going to want to check "Tool Number & Type" and "Tool Comment". By checking "Tool Comment", anything that is typed into the tooling dialogue's "Comment" section is inserted into your NC file. This can be found at the bottom of an open tooling dialogue.

[@lolas32d]

@@virtual-mfg Thank you for your answer, but that's not what I mean. I mean the comment contained in Toolblock Data-Post Data. I want to have a comment for the toolholders that I use automatically added. for example: (MTEC 0605C19 1.25ISO); -tool, added manually in Miling Tool- Comment (C6-391.01-63 060); -extension, added automatically in Toolblock Data (930-C6-S-12-082); -holder, added automatically in Toolblock Data (393.CF-12); -adapter, added automatically in Toolblock Data

[@virtual-mfg]

@@lolas32d I know where you are referring to in the intermediate tool, but I do not know how to make that not get output in the code. I assume the post could be set up to grab that text and output it somewhere. Let me mess around with it a bit!