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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Using the Tool View to Enhance Your NC Program</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">When you have viewed the Tool View and seen all the operations in which the tools are used, you can analyze the situation and decide if it is arranged in the most efficient way. Use this view to change the tool the operation uses, by moving the operation to a different tool parent. Since the Tool View groups the operations together by tool name, it allows you to quickly locate the tool you are searching for. Therefore, making changes in your operation relating to the tool are most easily performed in the Tool View. For example if you modified a tool, you would use the Tool View to see all of the operations that used that tool, and regenerate them to update their tool paths. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">The graphic below is an example of the Tool View. In the furthest left hand column, under Name, you can see all the tools that are in the part. You can also see that only two of these tools are actually used by operations. You can tell this by the plus or minus sign that is to the left of the tool name.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">In this example Tool UGTI0203_013 has been expanded to show the operation in which it is used. If you decide you want tool UGT0203_008 to perform this operation (FLOWCUT_SINGLE) you can drag and drop the operation into the correct place. Select the operation and drag it to the tool you want to use in that operation. Let go of the mouse, and that tool is now used in that operation. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">After moving an operation, status is set to regenerate, so you need to regenerate the operation to update the tool path. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">Tool UGTI0203_017 is collapsed. Expand it and see the operation(s) listed below it. These are the operations in which it is used.</p>
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