IDC (idcwoodcraft.com) have downloads for their bits.I don’t know if MillMage supports an external database being loaded for bits. I did ask them to contact your company for database format but I didn’t even know if you support that yet.
I wrote a conversion routine for several of the tool manufacturers, IDC was one of them.
It takes the database from the vendors and converts it into MillMage format.
I am embarrassed to say that I developed this about 4 months ago, and because of trips, work loads and death in the family, never got it into beta, even though I offered it to one person here.
It is written in Java, and if you want to work with me.. I’ll be more than happy to share it. But to be honest, a lot of this is used one time, to do the conversion, then you don’t ever need it again. So I was torn between offering this as a program, or just offering the converted database in MillMage format.
About 4 different manufacturers are converted.
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I go with converted, if you can post them somewhere public. Otherwise you will get into a question tornado with users of the software.
I seem to remember this info posted somewhere before. If I did not say it then, a BIG thank you for sharing this project. 
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Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much !!
@shipmodeller - I may be reading things wrong but there may be mis-converted data in the databases. It seems that bits with labels of ‘1/4" ’ show a width of .25mm (not inches). Seems units of measure may be mislisted. Also, the flute length of many is showing as 1mm. I don’t disparage what you did. I only want to make people aware to always double check any database from a vendor in general.
BTW, where is MM’s database format?
Tim
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I looked at the data and you are right. I am having some issues understanding what the “Display Units” is telling me. Right now, it seems to have two values. One for Metric, the other for Automatic. So, I have to figure out what the 'Automatic" means, because it doesn’t quite make sense to me.
Could “automatic” imply some type of calculation based off who knows what?
Automatic will match the units in the display window.
Metric will force metric units to display.
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Probably a bit of confusion… I rewrote some of the code to handle Rates and a few other things. You can clearly see that I have Automatic entered for Display Units. Looking at the picture of the tool, I see that it properly ID’ed it as Imperial, and put up 1/8" for the width. Ok, Still kinda confusing as to why or how it decides to do that, but it clearly is messed up as the height of the bit is in metric …
I kinda figured that once a tool has been id’ed as Imperial, ALL units would be imperial… but that doesn’t seem to be the case. And what is the 21 mm on the bottom of the picture of the tool derived from.
All my tool bases allow for import several different formats, but mostly, the Fusion 360 data base is a common export format for most tool vendors. So though I do support other formats, I have spent most of my efforts arund the Fusion 360 format.
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