G-Wizard Custom Tool Cribs

I’m still busy making G-Wizard videos. They’re a real quick way to show someone a lot of information. The one I just finished is all about making custom Tool Cribs for G-Wizard:

Custom Tool Cribs can serve a lot of purposes. Since you can have unlimited Tool Cribs, they can correspond to all sorts of useful things:

- The tools in a tool changer.

- The tools in a cart sitting next to the machine.

- Tools that need rework of some kind–broken endmill, face mill needing new inserts, tools needing sharpening, or whatever. There is a “Move” command that makes it easy to move tools between cribs. If a tool needs rework, simply “Move” it to the Rework crib so you can keep track of it.

The video is all about a custom crib that was the idea of a friend of mine named Peter. He wanted a crib that reflected the fact that his shop strictly uses TiAlN Carbide Endmills, HSS Twist Drills, plus a variety of indexable tooling. Pretty easy to set that up, so now Peter gets a menu tailored to the way his shop really operates.

That’s a time saver!

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