From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress
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Selecting tools
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress
Selecting tools
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be selecting tools for machining this block. Now we have jumped ahead a little bit, because we've already selected one tool and done one operation with it. In fact, in the previous couple videos, we've actually even posted that out already. But now we're going to rewind a little bit, and actually select that tool or the other tools for the job. To do that there's a couple different ways. The first way is to actually select the operation and then just kind of add the tool on the fly. So I'm going to choose maybe like a drilling operation, right up here, choose drill, and I'm going to choose from the library, notice I don't have any other operations. Not right now, it's saying that I'm going to be using this N mill for the drilling operation, which is not true, so I need to select a different operation. So come down here, I'm going to choose the inch aluminum, and see if we can't find a spot drill. So go through all the drills, the center…
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