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I've been having fun over Christmas learning Lathe and starting to build a library of commonly used lathe tools for the Haas TL-1 in our prototyping shop. All seems to be going well (pre first post) except when I import a 3D tool as a step file I don't get a proper thumbnail in my tool library. The pictures are an example tool I made of a small boring bar, this one drawn in Solidworks and imported as a step, but I've seen the same thing with .stp files from Iscar. The tool setup works perfectly and comes in and backplots and verifies fine, it's just the thumbnail shows the classic blank with gomon. I did search on this topic and while there was nothing specific to the tool library, I did see where Windows file thumbnails are tied to how the part was oriented in the last save or something. Is that the case here and is there some special trick to saving the part before you import it as a tool? While I'm here, I must give a shout out to George at MLC CAD on YouTube who's video "Mastercam Tech Tip: Lathe Toolholder Set-up" sorted out my previous big problem which was understanding tool orientation and the fact that there is such a thing as upside down tools! I would further shout out to Mooray Machine who's YouTube video on boring setup led me to the miracle of Stock Recognition.
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I am trying to create custom lathe tools for a multus. I have a face and turn tool that is mounted on the b axis at a 45° angle. I need to rotate the A around 180 to get my post to come out with position 4. Does anyone have experience with this? I attached a picture of how i got the tool drawn which works fine for position 3.
