A tool can have one or more settings menus, where the settings are stored. They look very similar to the master tool settings of various Impact tools that appear in Impact’s edit bar. Each tool in the manufacturing toolbox will have at least one settings menu.
Figure 3 An example of a settings menu, in this case it's the stripper routing.
Each setting menu has an icon at the far left, you can hover over this to reveal the name of the settings; a drop-down menu that contains a list of available settings and a button at the right side that opens the Settings Collection Editor described below. From here you can customise how the tool works.
Settings Collection Editor
All the tools within the Manufacturing Toolbox contain similar collection editors.
On the left side of the dialog is a list of settings. You can adjust the order of the settings by using the arrow buttons. There is a Remove button that will delete the currently highlighted setting. The Add button will clone the currently selected setting.
The right side will show a list of properties and the values associated with the currently selected setting.
Figure 4 an example of a settings collection, in this case this is the stripper routing setting editor.
All settings have the following properties:
Name
This is the text that will appear in the drop-down list in the settings menu.
Description
If this property contains text it will be displayed as a tool-tip when selecting an item from the drop-down list.
Icon
You can assign custom icons to settings to make them more visible to a user. The icons are limited to an image file of 16x16.
GUID
Read only. This identification property allows the Manufacturing Toolbox to keep track of each setting and is unique.
Notes
A simple text field to which you can add notes.