Industries and Tool Sets

A drawing says which industry it is drawn for: packaging, sheet metal, HVAC, laser cutting, sewing … The toolbar and Edit › Tool then offer the tools for that industry beside the general drawing tools, so the tools of other trades don't get in the way. The industry is part of the drawing's classification, saved with it.

The industries

Industry (its page)	Also known as (typed loosely)
General	none said: every tool is offered
Packaging	folding carton, corrugated board, rigid boxes, die making, dieline, display
Sheet metal	sheetmetal, metal fabrication, press brake
HVAC	ductwork, ducting, ventilation, air conditioning
Pipework	piping, pipe fitting, plumbing
Structural steel	steelwork, structural
Gaskets	gasket, seals
Laser cutting	laser, engraving, CNC cutting, digital cutting
Carpentry	woodworking, joinery, cabinet making, furniture
Sewing	apparel, textiles, garments, pattern making
Sign making	signs, signage, lettering
Picture framing	picture frames, framing, mount cutting, mat cutting
Vinyl cutting	vinyl, sign vinyl, heat transfer, HTV, decals
Carpets and flooring	carpet, rugs, flooring, mats
Labels	label die-cutting, roll labels, stickers
Leather goods	leather, upholstery, saddlery
Foam and inserts	foam, inserts, fitments
Glass	glazing, mirrors
Stone and tile	stone, tile, waterjet, worktops

Each industry's page lists its tools and the designs in its folder of the library.

Setting a drawing's industry

File › Drawing Properties…: choose the Industry from the list (see Drawing Properties).
In a drawing or the Interactive window: CLASSIFY "industry","Sheet metal" (see CLASSIFY). What you type is matched loosely, whatever its case, spaces or plural (sheet metal, HVAC, woodworking), and kept as the industry's name (SheetMetal, Hvac, Carpentry). Text the app doesn't know is kept as typed, and the drawing is offered every tool.
Extensions: classify("industry","Packaging"); classification().industry and drawingInfo().classification.industry read it (see the Drawing API).

It is set for you when a drawing is made:

From a Run Parametric design: the folder the design is in names its industry (Parametric/Sheet metal/… is for sheet metal). A design that says its own industry keeps it.
With File › New and an industry's materials (see Materials): corrugated board, folding carton and rigid boxes are packaging, woodworking is carpentry, and so on.
Otherwise, a new drawing is for the industry chosen in Preferences (General, unless you choose another).

The tools offered

The general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools are always there. After them, the toolbar has a group for the drawing's industry, and Edit › Tool a submenu named after it (Packaging Tools, HVAC Tools …) holding its tools. The production tools for every industry (Registration Mark, Drill Hole) are always in it; the die-maker's tools (Bridge, Edge Notch, Tear Strip) come, in a Cutting group of their own, with packaging, laser cutting, labels, gaskets, foam and leather; packaging's own tools (the flaps, Window with Patch, Lock Tab and Slot, Crease Offset) are in a Packaging group before it. A tool for several industries is in each of their groups, and shown once.

A General drawing is offered every tool, each industry's in a group of its own. Edit › Tool › Show All Tools shows every industry's tools whatever the drawing's industry; it is remembered for next time. Switching to another drawing, or changing a drawing's industry, changes the tools offered at once.

Exports and machines offered

The industry also decides the export formats File › Export › Export… lists first (the others are under File › Export › Export All Formats…, or all of them with Show All Tools), and the machine profiles File › Send Using Machine Profile offers: the format, options, layer names and pens, folder and file name for each machine the trade sends to, in one click. See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.