MCX6 inserts it's own cutters?

[bogusmill]

I'm using a 3/16 end mill with a peck drill toolpath to remove press fit bushings from a blind hole. I have only one tool in the tool library which I have used on 4 previous drill operations yet MC adds a 1/4 ball nose endmill tool to do this job. Why? Why doesn't it default to the only tool in the library and the same tool used in all previous operations? Makes no sense to me.

[Guest]

Because each operation has a default tool associated with it, when you create a new op it is created with the default tool. You need to tell the system what you want to use.

 

I can hear the outcry now if it started just using the last tool.

[bogusmill]

But the default tool for drilling is a ball nose endmill?

[Tyler Robertson]

mine is a 1/8" drill, standard?

 

you can set these defaults