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Tool libraries

Tool libraries

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Tool libraries

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- [Instructor] In this video we're going to be talking about tool libraries. Now if you jump into the tool library button right up here, click on that, you can open up our current library. You can see we've got four tools in our library. And directly below each one of these tools, it shows which job or operation that tool's being used for. Now we can cut and paste these tools if you want to right-click on them, you can say edit, you can renumber them, you can cut, you can duplicate, you can copy, paste, delete, and so on. So you can do a whole bunch, and you can switch these tools from library to library. In fact, if you come down here to my library, you can store things in these libraries here. You come down to sample libraries, and if you like a certain type of holder for instance, or you want to go grab some type of a tool for a specific type of material, you can grab that tool, come down here select drills, or endmills, or whatever you want, click on it and just right-click and…

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