Originally Posted by
Thrasher
Good Morning. You may be confusing a tool database with machine tool cribs. The tools you build via Solidworks or some other CAD program can be put in your tool database and will go into order after the last tool in the database that comes with CAMWorks. Tool numbers are then assigned when you build a tool crib for a particular machine. Not sure I am explaining that well... but, the "number" in the tool database is for database processing needs. You can build and modifiy tool cribs for your machine and assign what ever numbers you want.
Mark