Display Multiple Holders In Report

[DBeaulieu]

I have been beating my head for a bit now trying to figure this out and I am humbly stepping back and hoping the community can point me in the right direction.

1st image is from the tool manager. I have an extension inside of a collet chuck. The only holder that shows is the holder immediately after the cutting tool. I used the "Secret Handshake" approach from Bill Craven from another thread on Jan. 29 2019, but I still came up short. The "B5017-1000-5.50" holder was not listed anywhere in that .xml file for me to grab the tag and apply it to the report.

I would also like to use this image which shows more information (extension projection) also. I cannot seem to find where the image comes from that is being used in the report below.

This is where I am currently at with creating a custom report (lots of work left to do, I know.)

 

Just want to say thank you in advance for any advice/help with this issue!

[crazy^millman]

It is a shortcoming of the Active Reports and tool manager process as a whole with regards to Milling Tools. I build my milling tools as complete solids then name the holder with all the components as one name. When it finally catches up to 3D Lathe Tools then I suspect more capabilities and functions will be available.

[DBeaulieu]

Thanks for the prompt response. Although not ideal, we could make that work. Do you know how to achieve using the image from the tool path dialog by any chance? Would really like to see that extension projection as well.

[crazy^millman]

2 hours ago, DBeaulieu said:

Thanks for the prompt response. Although not ideal, we could make that work. Do you know how to achieve using the image from the tool path dialog by any chance? Would really like to see that extension projection as well.

No short of taking a screen shot and adding in manually.