# Tool Number Description in Fusion vs. V-Carve

**URL:** <https://forum.sienci.com/t/tool-number-description-in-fusion-vs-v-carve/26715>\
**Category:** ❓ Question\
**Created:** [July 14, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/tool-number-description-in-fusion-vs-v-carve/26715 "2026-07-14T19:17:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beeg\_56](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@Beeg\_56](https://forum.sienci.com/u/Beeg_56)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/tool-number-description-in-fusion-vs-v-carve/26715/1 "2026-07-14T19:17:56Z")

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Hi all;

First post ever, so be gentle 😉 .

I just received the TLS and had a couple issues that I figured would be covered in the forums somewhere. While digging, I noticed that it seems the tool descriptions are shown differently between Fusion (what I use) and V-Carve in the post-processed machine files.

V-Carve displays the tool number and description where Fusion does not:

**Snapshot for program created with V-Carve**

 ![image](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b3136412443dbcb138b5a5e79e6c3818c849ccd8.png)

**Snapshot for program created with Fusion**

 ![image](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/42150beeddae00c81724c614fe8bdf41e3d1cce5.png)

I checked some boxes in Fusion and changed a couple things in the tool setup itself, but no success. Is there a change or something in the grbl/grblHAL post-processor in Fusion to make this work?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![KGN](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@KGN](https://forum.sienci.com/u/KGN)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/tool-number-description-in-fusion-vs-v-carve/26715/2 "2026-07-14T19:59:35Z")

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gSender annotates the Tool Timeline with any comments, (..) or ;… on lines with a M6. If you want the same information, you’d need to have Fusion append a comment containing tool information with M6 commands.

I think the default grbl postprocessor already appends the tool comment section as a comment next to M6 (so your annotations would need to go there), but I’m not an avid Fusion user so hopefully someone can confirm/correct me.

 ![Screenshot 2026-07-14 at 3.58.38 PM](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/16cd1701d52989934b26f110c3c456f3ee3ba01b.png)

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**Author:** ![Beeg\_56](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@Beeg\_56](https://forum.sienci.com/u/Beeg_56)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/tool-number-description-in-fusion-vs-v-carve/26715/3 "2026-07-14T21:49:51Z")

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Hi KGN;

Thanks for the reply.

You’re correct, the tool.comment variable shows below the M6 line in the NC file but does not appear in the gSender tool dialog.

I messed around with the gcode and simply added “; \<\>” after the M6 command and the tool name appeared, similar to how the Vectric files look. Success, but a manual activity.

I think I’m going to poke around in the grbl forums to see if anyone has tackled this somehow.

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**Author:** ![Kerryh2012](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Kerryh2012](https://forum.sienci.com/u/Kerryh2012)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/tool-number-description-in-fusion-vs-v-carve/26715/4 "2026-07-15T18:19:29Z")

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make sure your tool settings in the fusion tool library don’t have the manual tool change check box checked.