- [Instructor] Another way that we can make our operations
more efficient is to combine different operation types
that use the same tool.
For example, in this case, if we're using the same end mill
for our rough and contour millings,
we might be able to combine those and do these processes
in one pass with the same tool without doing a tool change.
In order to do that,
I'm going to right click on My Mill Parts Setup,
and I'll go down to Combine Operations.
And you'll see, I have a number of different operations
I can combine.
If for some reason I was using my milling pit
to drill a hole, I could add drill to that.
In this case, it won't let me.
It will let me check contour mill and rough mill.
The reason it won't let me click Drill
is you'll see that there are no drill operations
in My Mill Parts Setup.
So I'm going to go ahead and click Rough Mill and Contour Mill,
and I'm going to leave the Regenerate Tool Path option clicked.
In this case, we haven't generated any tool paths yet,
but if we have generated tool paths by clicking
this Regenerate Tool Path,
it'll automatically combine the tool paths
that had previously been generated
for these different operations.
So I'm going to click Okay and let's see what happens.
By doing this I've combined two separate operations
that use the same tool and made sure that they're processed
without a tool change in between.