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Guide for "Vortex Industrial: Animated Laser Tools"
By Palpatine
This is a general guide on how to use the Toolcore tools provided in the "Vortex Industrial: Animated Laser Tools" mod. We will go over the basic use and various functions of the tools.
   
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Overview

The basic function of these tools is to provide a single block that can be used for any grinding, mining or welding.
In the following sections I will go over how to use each setting.

How to use
Put your tool(s) on your ship. If you have more then one put them in a group and for all cockpit settings use this group.
Get in your control station and sit in it so we can edit the hot bar.
The first thing you'll want is to add the tool to the hot bar from the "Block Tools" category, this will let it operate just like any other tool with right and left click to activation.
Second, from the "Groups" or "All Blocks" tab drag the tool onto your hot bar and add the following settings: "Mode Select", "Activate/Deactivate", "Action Select" and "Draw On/Off".
Now you are ready to work! Lets go over what each one of those settings does.
Left Click: Activate tool on the smaller faster setting.
Right Click: Activate tool on the larger slower setting.
Mode Select: Change between Grind, Weld and Drill modes.
Activate/Deactivate: Turn the tool's function on and off without mouse functions.
Action Select: Choose between Left and Right click settings for the laser while it is activated from the setting above.
Draw On/Off: Turn on a debug mode where you can see the area where the tool operates.
Settings Tables
If you don't like these settings feel free to use ModAdjusterV2 to alter them for your game!

Drills
Grid size
Length
Radius
ActivePower
1x1
lg
75
5
30
3x3
lg
150
10
600
1x1
sg
25
2.5
2
3x3
sg
50
5
30
Welders
Grid size
Length
Radius
ActivePower
1x1
lg
150
10
30
3x3
lg
300
10
600
1x1
sg
50
2.5
2
3x3
sg
100
5
30

Grinders
Grid size
Length
Radius
ActivePower
1x1
lg
40
2.5
30
3x3
lg
75
5
600
1x1
sg
12
2.5
2
3x3
sg
25
2.5
30