Tool numbering glitch

[MattW]

I have a job that uses five tools, and there are only five tools in the tool manager or machine group or whatever it is properly called. When I try to renumber tools, it is skipping the third tool. IOW, I get all 5 tools, numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. It does this regardless of starting number (starting with 7, I get 7, 8, 10, 11, 12). What am I doing wrong? It hasn't done this on other files. I can work around this, but I would like to understand the issue.

 

MattW

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

[tooljockey]

This has been discussed before. Do a search to find some responses.

 

MCX has some "bugs" with this very issue. I was assured by CNC that MR1 would remedy this.

[MattW]

I maybe should have stated I have searched. "skipping tool numbers" yields no results. "Tool numbering" and "tool renumbering" get largely the same X applicable results, and if the answer is in there, I can't find it. If this is a known bug that I have to work around, I can live with that and move on. If it is something I am doing, I want to know what it is and fix it.

 

MattW

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

[John13]

Has it always done this? If not, maybe try rebooting and see if that may clear it up. It's worth a shot. Other than trying that, I don't know what else you could try at this time.

[MattW]

John

 

No, it hasn't, but I haven't done a lot of parts in X (not a lot of parts, period, actually).

 

Try this one on for size. Since it is a pretty simple part, I just brought it in again (originally a Solidworks part, but this time with gcode's coordinate system trick), reprogrammed with the same tools in the same sequence, and it doesn't skip a number. The original file has some toolpath transforms translates and rotates the second doesn't have yet, but, still....

 

Any suggestions appreciated.