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This task shows you how to: | |
Import a Tool List from the TDM to the Resource List |
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1. | Open a Machining workbench (no CATPart or CATProduct document
is needed at this stage). The manufacturing document is initialized as follows.
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| 2. | Select Import/List Tools
in the Auxiliary Commands toolbar.The Search Tool dialog box appears. In the Look in list, select TDM.
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| 3. | Select Tool List Mode Access
that appears at the end of the line of icons.The Tool List Selection dialog box appears showing the tool lists currently in the TDM database. |
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| 5. | Filter the list. The example below shows how to enter a
string to display the tool lists referenced by a given machine (the % character
represents a character string).
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| 6. | Select the desired tool list and click OK. The Search Tool
dialog box is updated.
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If Tool preview after selection is set in Tools > Options > Machining > Resources, an image is displayed of any tool selected in the Search tool list. Please refer to Resource settings. | |
| 7. | Select the tools that you want to import to the resource
list and click OK. The PPR Resource List is updated with the selected tools.
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The selected tool will not be imported if the tool number of the selected tool already exists in the resource list. | |
Create a Tool List in the TDM from Tools Selected in the Resource List |
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1. | Select the tools in the PPR Resource List that you want
to include in a TDM tool list.
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| 2. | Right-click the selected tools and select Create TDM Tool List from the NC Resources menu. | |
| 3. | The Tool List Definition dialog box appears. Enter an identifier
for the new tool list. Also enter names for the NC program, part, and NC
machine. Click Create.
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| 4. | Select Import/List Tools
in the Auxiliary Commands toolbar. The Search Tool dialog box appears.
Make sure TDM and Tool List Mode Access
Click the [...] button opposite Tool List ID. The tool List Selection dialog box appears. |
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| 5. | If needed, enter the % character in the Tool List ID field
to display all the existing tool lists.
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| 6. | Select the tool list that you have just created (identifier
A_TOOL_LIST) to check that this list contains the tools that you selected
from the PPR tree.
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