Tool Library

[mp77Bushnell]

Every day it seems I get more confused.
So here I am in PATH hopefully the right forum.
Ive tried to find an answer (no love for the answers search gives.
So..

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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-20
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.15.2, Coin 4.0.1, Vtk 8.2.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * A2plus 0.4.56a
  * dxf-library
  * Help 1.0.3
  * InventorLoader 1.3.0
  * sheetmetal 0.2.49

Yes I know.. there is a slightly newer version but..

I'm trying to figure out how to use Tools and Tool Library in Path. (I do not have an advanced d3egree in computer science.)
I have created a tool in a new library.
When I try to USE that library (Add tool) the library does show
Is there a secret?
I cant find it in doc
I see some possible answers but gather that might be in LINUX Not windows
regardless it makes no sense.
I've found not one tutorial that helps.

Can anyone help me with what should be basics c(and documented)????

Frustrated to a point where I try to limit "trying to learn to two hours a day) at my age I might run out of time!!!

And it would b4e nice if folks posting answers would mention verson # and OS

[mlampert]

It's hard to tell what you are doing, try to do, have done or want to do.
Did you find the wiki page about tools which goes into quite some details Path_Tools?

[Giulio Buccini]

I'm lost. I cannot understand exactly the nature of the problem.
Using toolbits in Freecad is quite straigthforward, even for a (very) "slow" guy like me.

Step 0: create a tool in the library (I just added mines in the "Default" one).
Step 1: select the tool.
Step 2: click "Add to Job".
Step 3: it magically appears in the "Tool" node of your job-tree.

If you now click on the tool, you can set the feedrate, rpm, etc.
After done, you can now double click on one of your operations and select the new added toolbit from a drop-down menu.

TRICK:
If you want to use the same toolbit for at slow feed-rate (i.e. a raw-pass operation) and then at high feed-rate (i.e. a finish-pass operation), then add the same tool two times at your job. After done, specify different feed-rates for the two tools and select them in the appropriate operation.

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