Installing the plugin files
How to integrate the tool import buttons into the Mastercam ribbon
Click on the “Tool import” button:
Use the following dialog to select the ZIP files to be imported and confirm your selection with the “OK” button
Now select the directory in which the data to be imported is to be stored in Mastercam “.tooldb” format and confirm this selection with the “OK” button.
The selected files are then converted into the “.tooldb” format.
Finally, the end of the import process is indicated by a corresponding dialog, which you can confirm with “OK”.
CIMSOURCE
CIMSOURCE’s standards and technologies are key to synchronize the master data management of tool suppliers and the manufacturing data management of tool consumers.
Since developing Standard Open Base (StOB) in 1992, CIMSOURCE has been organizing the product databases of tool suppliers, and the tool data of manufacturing operations.