Well still on the quest of making my custom copy of mach4 I needed a more indepth tooltable, I wanted to be able to select a tool from a library and mach4 load all the params I needed.

for Instance I use the mdi panel a lot and do a fair bit of by eye milling so If I decide I want to change tool then mach will change all the spindlespeed - feedrates etc for me.

So I created this for a start and can develop further as needed.

And of course you can have a copy too.  

The Button code is

inst = mc.mcGetInstance()
profile = mc.mcProfileGetName(inst)
path = mc.mcCntlGetMachDir(inst)
mods_path = path.."\\Modules\\DTG_Tooltable\\"

dofile(mods_path.."TTable.mcc")
The Script is Posted Below

The Setup and Usage Video Here  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,30974.0.html

I tried it and as soon as I press the Edit Tool button the Mach4 freezes and I have to restart.

Unfortunately this no longer works, since creating this 2 years ago many things have changed with mach4 including the tooltable so some of the profile variables that it requires are no longer there.

DazTheGas

Thanks for the info

with current mach4 it is possible, to extend mach4 tool table, instead of creating a completely new one.
I did it that way and it works fine.

Reinhard

Can you give details on what you did?

I was working on a tooltable inside mach4 (i wanted to avoid popping dialogs) and wanted to add the cutlength of a flute to the tool table.
So from main menu of mach4 enter "view->tool table", which opens the mach4 tool table dialog.
From there go to "Edit -> Table Fields", which opens another dialog with a notebook control.
Last tab to the right is called "User Fields".
There you can add fields to the tool table.

To retrieve the values from lua there's a mach4-API that takes a fieldname as parameter:
mc.mcToolGetDataExInt(inst, toolNumber, userdefinedFieldname)That API has variants for Double and String too, so straight forward

See attached picture of my tool table tab page. Column "SL" is a user defined field from mach4 tool table and I don't have to care about storage

hth Reinhard

thank you