Can a Nethook assign tool#s to op's

[Guess_who]

I have a question about Nethooks. First, let me state, I have zero experience with nethooks but I can learn. 

What we'd like to do is use some type of nethook to create a drilling operation and assigned a tool # to it from the tool list. The tool list will have 100's if not 1000's of tools in it, so to do this manually would take a lot of time.  We'd need an operation created for each tool. 

The point of this is so that we can post it out and grab a bunch of data from each tool to be used elsewhere. 

I hope that all makes sense. 

So, I'm not looking for anyone to do the work, but maybe you can let me know if nethooks would be the best way to accomplish this. 

[Mick George]

Ray,

This does sound like something a NET-Hook could do. I would first recommend downloading all of the example NET-Hook projects from mastercam.com under the 3rd Party Developers link to get familiar with how NET-Hooks work. You will want to install the free Community Edition of Visual Studio and I would recommend installing the Mastercam NET-Hook project template for Visual Studio too as that makes it easy to begin a NET-Hook project. Feel free to reply here for any additional help.

 

[Guess_who]

Thank you.

I'll start looking into it.