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Tool libraries

Tool libraries

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Tool libraries

- In this video we're going to be talking about tool libraries. Now tool libraries are where we can get predefined tools or I can take the tools that I've already defined and save them to a library. Both are great things. Let's head up here to tool path utilities. Grab the tool manager. Inside there I've got this one tool here. And I want to create or access a library. So right down here you can see I'm already accessing a library. And you can see there is the path to it, right? And I can click over here and create a new tool library if I'd like to. I can just save it out. And save it to your file system, wherever you want to save it, it doesn't matter. But generally save it somewhere in your working directory. So let's go ahead and just like try one out. I'm going to put it under Amil Tools and I'm just going to call this one Gabe. And save. So here's my new tool library and I'm just saving this out, right? So notice, there's nothing down here though, right? So it might be nice to…

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